Artois, CA
How exposed is Artois to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Artois at the 85th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 228 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Artois at the 86th percentile, close to its 85th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Artois's 228 counted buildings, 54.4% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Artois ranks
Artois's 85th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 51st ranking inside California does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 34 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Artois ranks 4,590 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,844 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 770 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Artois
Artois 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 85th-percentile score like Artois's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
What would actually reduce this score
Because Direct exposure dominates in Artois (54.4%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 228 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Artois. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Artois, see the exposure-zones guide.