Auburn Lake Trails, CA
Auburn Lake Trails, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Auburn Lake Trails at the 99th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 2,216 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Auburn Lake Trails at the 98th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Auburn Lake Trails's buildings actually sit
99.9% of Auburn Lake Trails's 2,216 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 2,214 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 0.1% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
How Auburn Lake Trails compares
Auburn Lake Trails's risk sits at a similar level relative to California (89th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (99th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Auburn Lake Trails ranks 334 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,890 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 163 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Auburn Lake Trails
Because Auburn Lake Trails 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 99.9% of Auburn Lake Trails in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Auburn Lake Trails's 99th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Auburn Lake Trails, see the exposure-zones guide.