Good Hope, CA
Good Hope wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Good Hope at the 93rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 4,196 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Good Hope at the 95th percentile, close to its 93rd-percentile risk score.
Where Good Hope's buildings actually sit
Of Good Hope's 4,196 counted buildings, 88.5% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Good Hope ranks
Good Hope's 93rd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 69th ranking inside California does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 24 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Good Hope ranks 2,070 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,063 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 482 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Good Hope and the insurance market
Good Hope 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 93rd-percentile score like Good Hope's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
What would actually reduce this score
Because Direct exposure dominates in Good Hope (88.5%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 4,196 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Good Hope. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Good Hope, see the exposure-zones guide.