Butte Creek Canyon, CA
Butte Creek Canyon, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Butte Creek Canyon sits at the 90th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 747 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Butte Creek Canyon's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 90th percentile nationally.
Butte Creek Canyon's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Butte Creek Canyon's 747 counted buildings, 97.1% 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 Butte Creek Canyon ranks
Butte Creek Canyon's 90th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 60th ranking inside California does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 29 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Butte Creek Canyon ranks 3,298 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,148 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 621 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Butte Creek Canyon
Because Butte Creek Canyon 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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 97.1% of Butte Creek Canyon 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.
Where Butte Creek Canyon's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 747 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Butte Creek Canyon. The exposure-zones guide covers what Butte Creek Canyon's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.