Fort Jones, CA
Fort Jones, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Fort Jones sits at the 99th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 561 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Fort Jones at the 99th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Fort Jones's building exposure, zone by zone
Indirect exposure is dominant in Fort Jones (74% of 561 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 26% sit in the Direct zone.
Fort Jones against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Fort Jones's 99th national percentile and its 92nd percentile inside California, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Fort Jones ranks 212 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,384 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 120 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Fort Jones and the insurance market
Fort Jones's 99th-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.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Fort Jones (74% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Fort Jones's 212-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Fort Jones, see the exposure-zones guide.