Fieldbrook, CA
How exposed is Fieldbrook to wildfire?
USFS scores Fieldbrook at the 52nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 646 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Fieldbrook at the 55th national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Fieldbrook's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Fieldbrook's 646 counted buildings, 99.9% 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.
How Fieldbrook compares
Inside California, Fieldbrook sits at just the 12th percentile even though it scores 52nd nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Fieldbrook ranks 15,116 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,240 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,376 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Because Fieldbrook 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
With 99.9% of Fieldbrook 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.
More on how this number was built
Fieldbrook's 52nd-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 Fieldbrook, see the exposure-zones guide.