Casmalia, CA
Casmalia, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Casmalia lands at the 94th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 87 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Casmalia at the 93rd percentile, close to its 94th-percentile risk score.
Where Casmalia's buildings actually sit
Of Casmalia's 87 counted buildings, 85.1% 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 Casmalia ranks
Casmalia ranks lower within California (70th percentile statewide) than its 94th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Casmalia ranks 2,006 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,606 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 471 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Casmalia and the insurance market
Casmalia'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
Because Direct exposure dominates in Casmalia (85.1%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Casmalia's 2,006-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Casmalia, see the exposure-zones guide.