Mecca, CA
Mecca wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Mecca at the 57th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 1,675 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 Mecca at the 59th percentile, close to its 57th-percentile risk score.
Where Mecca's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 84.4% of Mecca's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 15.2% Direct and 0.4% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Mecca compares
Mecca's 57th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 15th ranking inside California does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 42 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mecca ranks 13,416 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,506 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,328 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Mecca
Mecca's 57th-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.
What would actually reduce this score
Mecca's 84.4% 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.
More on how this number was built
Mecca's 57th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Mecca, see the exposure-zones guide.