Brooktrails, CA
How exposed is Brooktrails to wildfire?
USFS scores Brooktrails at the 86th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 1,275 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Brooktrails's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 84th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Brooktrails: 97% of its 1,275 buildings, versus 3% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Brooktrails against the rest of the country
Brooktrails's 86th 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, Brooktrails ranks 4,527 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,223 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 760 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Brooktrails and the insurance market
Brooktrails's 86th-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.
Hardening a home in Brooktrails
With 97% of Brooktrails 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Brooktrails's 4,527-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Brooktrails, see the exposure-zones guide.