Knights Landing, CA
How exposed is Knights Landing to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Knights Landing at the 41st national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 407 actual buildings. (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 Landing at the 38th percentile, close to its 41st-percentile risk score.
Where Knights Landing's buildings actually sit
94.4% of Knights Landing's 407 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 5.7% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Where Knights Landing ranks
Inside California, Knights Landing sits at just the 6th percentile even though it scores 41st 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, Knights Landing ranks 18,709 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,076 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,474 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Because Knights Landing 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
Knights Landing's 94.4% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where Knights Landing's figures come from
Knights Landing's 41st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Knights Landing's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.