Douglas Flat, CA
Douglas Flat wildfire risk explained
Douglas Flat's 231 buildings earn a 99th-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 Douglas Flat at the 99th percentile, close to its 99th-percentile risk score.
Where Douglas Flat's buildings actually sit
Of Douglas Flat's 231 counted buildings, 70.6% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Douglas Flat ranks
Douglas Flat scores 99th nationally and 88th within California — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Douglas Flat ranks 367 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,755 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 178 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Douglas Flat and the insurance market
Because Douglas Flat 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
Because Direct exposure dominates in Douglas Flat (70.6%), 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 231 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Douglas Flat. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Douglas Flat, see the exposure-zones guide.