Lake Almanor Country Club, CA
Lake Almanor Country Club wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Lake Almanor Country Club lands at the 89th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 1,538 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Lake Almanor Country Club's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 86th percentile nationally.
Lake Almanor Country Club's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 93.2% of Lake Almanor Country Club's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 3.5% Indirect share and far above its 3.4% Minimal share — a profile where 1,433 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Lake Almanor Country Club compares
Lake Almanor Country Club's 89th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 58th ranking inside California does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 30 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lake Almanor Country Club ranks 3,520 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,993 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 653 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Lake Almanor Country Club and the insurance market
Lake Almanor Country Club's 89th-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 Lake Almanor Country Club
With 93.2% of Lake Almanor Country Club in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Lake Almanor Country Club's 3,520-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Lake Almanor Country Club, see the exposure-zones guide.