Foresta, CA
How exposed is Foresta to wildfire?
Foresta's 43 buildings earn a 98th-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.)
Separately from the risk score above, Foresta's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 98th percentile nationally.
Foresta's building exposure, zone by zone
43 buildings are counted in Foresta, and 100% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Where Foresta ranks
Foresta's risk sits at a similar level relative to California (85th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (98th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Foresta ranks 558 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,094 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 239 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
Foresta 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 98th-percentile score like Foresta's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
What would actually reduce this score
With 100% of Foresta 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
Foresta's 98th-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 Foresta, see the exposure-zones guide.