Arbuckle, CA
Arbuckle wildfire risk explained
Arbuckle's 1,252 buildings earn a 85th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Arbuckle's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 84th percentile nationally.
Arbuckle's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Arbuckle's buildings (82.6%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Arbuckle against the rest of the country
Arbuckle's 85th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 50th ranking inside California does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 35 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Arbuckle ranks 4,780 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,335 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 792 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Because Arbuckle is in California, a wildfire-hazard disclosure is legally required before a sale closes here — unusual nationally, since only these two states mandate it. The state's FAIR Plan alone carried 668,609 policies by the end of 2025. Full detail in the disclosure-law guide.
Hardening a home in Arbuckle
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Arbuckle (82.6% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Arbuckle's 4,780-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Arbuckle, see the exposure-zones guide.