Boonville, CA
How exposed is Boonville to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Boonville at the 94th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 781 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Boonville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 94th percentile nationally.
Boonville's building exposure, zone by zone
781 buildings are counted in Boonville, and 83.1% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Boonville against the rest of the country
Boonville's 94th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 71st ranking inside California does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 23 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Boonville ranks 1,881 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,802 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 453 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Boonville
Boonville's 94th-percentile score lands in California, the only two states requiring a wildfire disclosure at sale. California's surplus-lines homeowners market passed 300,000 policies for the first time in 2025, driven by carriers pulling back from wildfire-exposed areas statewide. The disclosure-law guide covers what it requires.
What would actually reduce this score
Boonville's 83.1% 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 Boonville's figures come from
Boonville's 94th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Boonville's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.