Highgrove, CA
Highgrove, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Highgrove's 2,206 buildings earn a 89th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Highgrove at the 90th percentile, close to its 89th-percentile risk score.
Highgrove's building exposure, zone by zone
Indirect exposure is dominant in Highgrove (79.2% of 2,206 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 20.8% sit in the Direct zone.
How Highgrove compares
Inside California, Highgrove sits at just the 59th percentile even though it scores 89th 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, Highgrove ranks 3,490 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,919 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 649 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Highgrove
Because Highgrove 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Highgrove's 79.2% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Highgrove's 89th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Highgrove, see the exposure-zones guide.