Forest Meadows, CA
Forest Meadows, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Forest Meadows at the 100th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 1,005 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Forest Meadows at the 100th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 93.2% of Forest Meadows's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 6.8% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 937 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Where Forest Meadows ranks
Forest Meadows's risk sits at a similar level relative to California (98th 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, Forest Meadows ranks 56 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,892 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 33 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Forest Meadows
Forest Meadows 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 Forest Meadows's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
What would actually reduce this score
Forest Meadows's 93.2% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,005 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Forest Meadows. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Forest Meadows, see the exposure-zones guide.