Junction City, CA
Junction City, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Junction City at the 100th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 528 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Junction City at the 100th national percentile — 0 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
USFS classifies 98.5% of Junction City's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 1.5% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 520 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Junction City against the rest of the country
Junction City scores 100th nationally and 95th 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, Junction City ranks 123 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,889 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 80 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Junction City and the insurance market
Junction City's 100th-percentile score lands in California, the only two states requiring a wildfire disclosure at sale. California's surplus-lines homeowners market passed 300,000 policies for the first time in 2025, driven by carriers pulling back from wildfire-exposed areas statewide. The disclosure-law guide covers what it requires.
Hardening a home in Junction City
Junction City's 98.5% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Junction City's 123-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Junction City, see the exposure-zones guide.