Delft Colony, CA
How exposed is Delft Colony to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Delft Colony lands at the 84th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 173 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 Delft Colony at the 86th percentile, close to its 84th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Delft Colony: 76.3% of its 173 buildings, versus 0% Indirect and 23.7% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Delft Colony compares
Delft Colony ranks lower within California (49th percentile statewide) than its 84th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Delft Colony ranks 4,905 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,886 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 806 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Delft Colony and the insurance market
Delft Colony's 84th-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Delft Colony's 76.3% 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
Delft Colony's 84th-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 Delft Colony, see the exposure-zones guide.