Crescent Mills, CA
How exposed is Crescent Mills to wildfire?
Crescent Mills sits at the 98th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 173 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Crescent Mills at the 99th percentile, close to its 98th-percentile risk score.
Crescent Mills's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 52% of Crescent Mills's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 48% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 90 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Crescent Mills compares
There's little gap between Crescent Mills's 98th national percentile and its 85th percentile inside California, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Crescent Mills ranks 531 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,885 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 232 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Crescent Mills and the insurance market
Crescent Mills sits in California, one of two states that legally require a wildfire-risk disclosure at sale. California's FAIR Plan, the state's insurer of last resort, ended 2025 with 668,609 residential policies after adding 21,859 in Q4 alone — the kind of market shift a 98th-percentile score like Crescent Mills's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 52% of Crescent Mills in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
Where Crescent Mills's figures come from
Crescent Mills's 98th-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 Crescent Mills's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.