Camptonville, CA
Camptonville wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Camptonville at the 100th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 108 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Camptonville at the 100th percentile, close to its 100th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Camptonville: 100% of its 108 buildings, versus 0% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Camptonville ranks
Camptonville's risk sits at a similar level relative to California (99th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (100th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Camptonville ranks 23 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,679 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 12 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Camptonville
Camptonville sits in California, one of two states that legally require a wildfire-risk disclosure at sale. California's FAIR Plan, the state's insurer of last resort, ended 2025 with 668,609 residential policies after adding 21,859 in Q4 alone — the kind of market shift a 100th-percentile score like Camptonville's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
What would actually reduce this score
Camptonville's 100% 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.
More on how this number was built
Camptonville's 100th-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 Camptonville, see the exposure-zones guide.