Copperopolis, CA
How exposed is Copperopolis to wildfire?
USFS scores Copperopolis at the 95th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 3,209 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Copperopolis's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 96th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 66.4% of Copperopolis's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 30% Indirect share and far above its 3.6% Minimal share — a profile where 2,131 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Copperopolis compares
Inside California, Copperopolis sits at just the 75th 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, Copperopolis ranks 1,471 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,155 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 396 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Copperopolis
Because Copperopolis 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
Copperopolis's 66.4% 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.
More on how this number was built
Copperopolis's 95th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Copperopolis, see the exposure-zones guide.