Diamond Springs, CA
Diamond Springs, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Diamond Springs 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 6,265 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Diamond Springs at the 97th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Diamond Springs's building exposure, zone by zone
6,265 buildings are counted in Diamond Springs, and 64.2% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0.4% rated Minimal. At 6,265 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Diamond Springs ranks
Diamond Springs ranks lower within California (81st percentile statewide) than its 98th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Diamond Springs ranks 748 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,769 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 289 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Diamond Springs
Diamond Springs 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 Diamond Springs's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
Hardening a home in Diamond Springs
Because Direct exposure dominates in Diamond Springs (64.2%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Diamond Springs's 748-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Diamond Springs, see the exposure-zones guide.