Dos Palos Y, CA
Dos Palos Y wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Dos Palos Y at the 33rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 238 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Dos Palos Y at the 31st national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Dos Palos Y's building exposure, zone by zone
62.2% of Dos Palos Y's 238 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 148 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 0% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 37.8% are Minimal.
Where Dos Palos Y ranks
Dos Palos Y's 33rd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 4th ranking inside California does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 30 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Dos Palos Y ranks 21,043 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,519 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,514 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Dos Palos Y and the insurance market
Because Dos Palos Y 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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 62.2% of Dos Palos Y 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 Dos Palos Y's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 238 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Dos Palos Y. The exposure-zones guide covers what Dos Palos Y's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.