Hydesville, CA
Hydesville, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Hydesville at the 58th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 968 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Hydesville at the 60th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Hydesville's 968 counted buildings, 87.4% 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 Hydesville ranks
Inside California, Hydesville sits at just the 16th percentile even though it scores 58th 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, Hydesville ranks 13,133 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,166 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,316 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Hydesville
Hydesville 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 58th-percentile score like Hydesville's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Hydesville's 87.4% 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
Hydesville's 58th-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 Hydesville, see the exposure-zones guide.