Mount Hebron, CA
Mount Hebron wildfire risk explained
Mount Hebron's 89 buildings earn a 70th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Mount Hebron at the 70th percentile, close to its 70th-percentile risk score.
Where Mount Hebron's buildings actually sit
Indirect exposure is dominant in Mount Hebron (50.6% of 89 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 49.4% sit in the Direct zone.
How Mount Hebron compares
Mount Hebron's 70th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 28th 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, Mount Hebron ranks 9,320 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,524 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,135 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Mount Hebron
Mount Hebron sits in California, one of two states that legally require a wildfire-risk disclosure at sale. California's FAIR Plan, the state's insurer of last resort, ended 2025 with 668,609 residential policies after adding 21,859 in Q4 alone — the kind of market shift a 70th-percentile score like Mount Hebron's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
Hardening a home in Mount Hebron
Mount Hebron's 50.6% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 89 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Mount Hebron. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Mount Hebron, see the exposure-zones guide.