Millerton, CA
Millerton wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Millerton at the 91st national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 198 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 Millerton at the 93rd percentile, close to its 91st-percentile risk score.
Where Millerton's buildings actually sit
198 buildings are counted in Millerton, and 58.1% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Millerton against the rest of the country
Inside California, Millerton sits at just the 65th percentile even though it scores 91st 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, Millerton ranks 2,702 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,912 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 556 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Millerton and the insurance market
Because Millerton 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Millerton's 58.1% 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.
Where Millerton's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Millerton's 2,702-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Millerton's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.