Harbison Canyon, CA
How exposed is Harbison Canyon to wildfire?
USFS scores Harbison Canyon at the 99th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 2,071 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Harbison Canyon at the 98th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Harbison Canyon's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Harbison Canyon's 2,071 counted buildings, 70.6% 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 Harbison Canyon ranks
Harbison Canyon scores 99th nationally and 87th 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, Harbison Canyon ranks 435 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,283 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 205 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Harbison Canyon
Harbison Canyon 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 99th-percentile score like Harbison Canyon's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
Hardening a home in Harbison Canyon
Because Direct exposure dominates in Harbison Canyon (70.6%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
Where Harbison Canyon's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Harbison Canyon's 435-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Harbison Canyon's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.