Douglas City, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Douglas City at the 100th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 835 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Douglas City at the 100th percentile, close to its 100th-percentile risk score.
Douglas City's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Douglas City: 100% of its 835 buildings, versus 0% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Douglas City compares
Douglas City's risk sits at a similar level relative to California (100th 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, Douglas City ranks 4 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,298 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 4 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Douglas City and the insurance market
Because Douglas City 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 Douglas City (100%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
Where Douglas City's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Douglas City's 4-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Douglas City's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.