Glennville, CA
How exposed is Glennville to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Glennville lands at the 98th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 158 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Glennville at the 99th percentile, close to its 98th-percentile risk score.
Glennville's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 100% of Glennville's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 0% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 158 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Where Glennville ranks
Glennville scores 98th nationally and 84th within California — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Glennville ranks 594 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,516 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 251 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Glennville and the insurance market
Because Glennville is in California, a wildfire-hazard disclosure is legally required before a sale closes here — unusual nationally, since only these two states mandate it. The state's FAIR Plan alone carried 668,609 policies by the end of 2025. Full detail in the disclosure-law guide.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Glennville's 100% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Glennville's 594-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Glennville, see the exposure-zones guide.