Dollar Point, CA
Dollar Point, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Dollar Point's 1,324 buildings earn a 86th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Dollar Point at the 84th percentile, close to its 86th-percentile risk score.
Dollar Point's building exposure, zone by zone
51.2% of Dollar Point's 1,324 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 678 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 47% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 1.8% are Minimal.
How Dollar Point compares
Dollar Point's 86th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 51st ranking inside California does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 34 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Dollar Point ranks 4,563 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,957 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 767 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Dollar Point
Because Dollar Point 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
Because Direct exposure dominates in Dollar Point (51.2%), 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
Dollar Point's 86th-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 Dollar Point, see the exposure-zones guide.