Coleville, CA
Coleville wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Coleville lands at the 95th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 266 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 Coleville at the 95th percentile, close to its 95th-percentile risk score.
Coleville's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Coleville's 266 counted buildings, 94% 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.
How Coleville compares
Inside California, Coleville sits at just the 74th percentile even though it scores 95th 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, Coleville ranks 1,564 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,623 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 409 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Coleville
Coleville's 95th-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.
Hardening a home in Coleville
Because Direct exposure dominates in Coleville (94%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
Where Coleville's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Coleville's 1,564-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Coleville's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.