Knights Ferry, CA
How exposed is Knights Ferry to wildfire?
USFS scores Knights Ferry at the 92nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 98 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Knights Ferry at the 93rd percentile, close to its 92nd-percentile risk score.
Where Knights Ferry's buildings actually sit
Of Knights Ferry's 98 counted buildings, 70.4% 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.
How Knights Ferry compares
Knights Ferry's 92nd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 66th ranking inside California does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 26 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Knights Ferry ranks 2,573 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,111 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 536 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Knights Ferry
Knights Ferry 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 92nd-percentile score like Knights Ferry's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Knights Ferry's 70.4% 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
Knights Ferry's 92nd-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 Knights Ferry, see the exposure-zones guide.