Chalfant, CA
Chalfant, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Chalfant at the 41st national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 530 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Chalfant at the 51st national percentile — 9 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Chalfant's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 61.5% of Chalfant's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 38.5% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 326 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Chalfant compares
Inside California, Chalfant sits at just the 6th percentile even though it scores 41st nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Chalfant ranks 18,457 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,858 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,472 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Because Chalfant 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
Chalfant's 61.5% 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.
Where Chalfant's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 530 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Chalfant. The exposure-zones guide covers what Chalfant's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.