Forbestown, CA
How exposed is Forbestown to wildfire?
USFS scores Forbestown at the 100th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 210 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Forbestown's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 99th percentile nationally.
Forbestown's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Forbestown: 100% of its 210 buildings, versus 0% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Forbestown against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Forbestown's 100th national percentile and its 96th percentile inside California, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Forbestown ranks 88 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,467 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 52 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Forbestown
Forbestown sits in California, one of two states that legally require a wildfire-risk disclosure at sale. California's FAIR Plan, the state's insurer of last resort, ended 2025 with 668,609 residential policies after adding 21,859 in Q4 alone — the kind of market shift a 100th-percentile score like Forbestown's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
What would actually reduce this score
With 100% of Forbestown 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Forbestown's 88-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Forbestown, see the exposure-zones guide.