Fairbanks Ranch, CA
Fairbanks Ranch wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Fairbanks Ranch at the 74th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 2,063 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Fairbanks Ranch at the 73rd national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Fairbanks Ranch's buildings actually sit
Indirect exposure is dominant in Fairbanks Ranch (51.4% of 2,063 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 30.2% sit in the Direct zone.
Where Fairbanks Ranch ranks
Fairbanks Ranch's 74th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 31st ranking inside California does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 42 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Fairbanks Ranch ranks 8,277 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,303 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,077 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Fairbanks Ranch
Fairbanks Ranch's 74th-percentile score lands in California, the only two states requiring a wildfire disclosure at sale. California's surplus-lines homeowners market passed 300,000 policies for the first time in 2025, driven by carriers pulling back from wildfire-exposed areas statewide. The disclosure-law guide covers what it requires.
Hardening a home in Fairbanks Ranch
Because 51.4% of Fairbanks Ranch's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where Fairbanks Ranch's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Fairbanks Ranch's 8,277-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Fairbanks Ranch's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.