Amesti, CA
Amesti wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Amesti at the 75th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 1,212 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Amesti's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 78th percentile nationally.
Where Amesti's buildings actually sit
Of Amesti's 1,212 counted buildings, 47.3% carry Direct exposure and only 34.9% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Amesti against the rest of the country
Amesti's 75th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 33rd ranking inside California does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 42 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Amesti ranks 7,904 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,582 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,054 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Amesti
Amesti sits in California, one of two states that legally require a wildfire-risk disclosure at sale. California's FAIR Plan, the state's insurer of last resort, ended 2025 with 668,609 residential policies after adding 21,859 in Q4 alone — the kind of market shift a 75th-percentile score like Amesti's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
What would actually reduce this score
Amesti's 47.3% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
Where Amesti's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,212 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Amesti. The exposure-zones guide covers what Amesti's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.