Mineral, CA
Mineral, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Mineral's 311 buildings earn a 97th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Mineral's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 96th percentile nationally.
Mineral's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Mineral: 86.5% of its 311 buildings, versus 13.5% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Mineral ranks
Inside California, Mineral sits at just the 79th percentile even though it scores 97th 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, Mineral ranks 1,032 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,334 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 336 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Mineral and the insurance market
Because Mineral 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.
Hardening a home in Mineral
Mineral's 86.5% 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 Mineral's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 311 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Mineral. The exposure-zones guide covers what Mineral's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.