Clyde, CA
Clyde wildfire risk explained
Clyde's 345 buildings earn a 78th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Clyde at the 80th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Clyde's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 97.7% of Clyde's 345 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 2.3% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Clyde against the rest of the country
Inside California, Clyde sits at just the 37th percentile even though it scores 78th 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, Clyde ranks 7,019 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,443 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 989 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Clyde and the insurance market
Because Clyde 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Clyde (97.7% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Clyde's 7,019-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Clyde, see the exposure-zones guide.