Hathaway Pines, CA
How exposed is Hathaway Pines to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Hathaway Pines at the 100th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 373 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Hathaway Pines's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 100th percentile nationally.
Hathaway Pines's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Hathaway Pines's 373 counted buildings, 98.1% 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.
How Hathaway Pines compares
There's little gap between Hathaway Pines's 100th national percentile and its 98th percentile inside California, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hathaway Pines ranks 57 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,800 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 34 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Hathaway Pines and the insurance market
Because Hathaway Pines 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.
Hardening a home in Hathaway Pines
Hathaway Pines's 98.1% 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
Hathaway Pines's 100th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Hathaway Pines, see the exposure-zones guide.