Citrus Heights, CA
How exposed is Citrus Heights to wildfire?
USFS scores Citrus Heights at the 53rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 28,511 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Citrus Heights at the 57th national percentile — 4 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Citrus Heights's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 96% of Citrus Heights's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 4% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 28,511 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Citrus Heights ranks
Inside California, Citrus Heights sits at just the 13th percentile even though it scores 53rd 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, Citrus Heights ranks 14,740 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 419 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,370 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Citrus Heights
Citrus Heights's 53rd-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
Even with 96% of Citrus Heights outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
Where Citrus Heights's figures come from
Citrus Heights's 53rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Citrus Heights's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.