Cameron Park, CA
How exposed is Cameron Park to wildfire?
Cameron Park sits at the 97th 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 6,671 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Cameron Park's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 96th percentile nationally.
Cameron Park's building exposure, zone by zone
6,671 buildings are counted in Cameron Park, and 45.9% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 27.9% in Direct exposure or the 26.2% rated Minimal. At 6,671 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Cameron Park compares
Cameron Park's 97th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 79th ranking inside California does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 18 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Cameron Park ranks 968 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,597 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 330 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Cameron Park
Because Cameron Park 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
Because 45.9% of Cameron Park's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 6,671 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Cameron Park. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Cameron Park, see the exposure-zones guide.