Cedar Ridge, CA
How exposed is Cedar Ridge to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Cedar Ridge lands at the 100th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 1,035 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Cedar Ridge at the 100th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Cedar Ridge's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Cedar Ridge's 1,035 counted buildings, 98.9% 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.
Cedar Ridge against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Cedar Ridge's 100th national percentile and its 98th percentile inside California, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Cedar Ridge ranks 53 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,690 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 30 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Cedar Ridge
Cedar Ridge's 100th-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 Cedar Ridge (98.9%), 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 Cedar Ridge's 53-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Cedar Ridge, see the exposure-zones guide.