Dorrington, CA
How exposed is Dorrington to wildfire?
Dorrington sits at the 100th 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 2,123 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Dorrington's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 100th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
2,123 buildings are counted in Dorrington, and 98.7% 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% rated Minimal.
How Dorrington compares
Dorrington's risk sits at a similar level relative to California (97th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (100th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Dorrington ranks 55 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,135 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 32 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Dorrington and the insurance market
Dorrington 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 100th-percentile score like Dorrington's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
What would actually reduce this score
Dorrington's 98.7% 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
Dorrington's 100th-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 Dorrington, see the exposure-zones guide.