Gasquet, CA
Gasquet wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Gasquet at the 98th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 500 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Gasquet at the 98th percentile, close to its 98th-percentile risk score.
Gasquet's building exposure, zone by zone
500 buildings are counted in Gasquet, and 76.2% 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.
How Gasquet compares
Inside California, Gasquet sits at just the 82nd percentile even though it scores 98th 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, Gasquet ranks 684 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,347 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 277 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Gasquet and the insurance market
Gasquet 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 Gasquet's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 76.2% of Gasquet 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.
Where Gasquet's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Gasquet's 684-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Gasquet's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.