Myers Flat, CA
Myers Flat wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Myers Flat lands at the 63rd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 102 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Myers Flat at the 63rd percentile, close to its 63rd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Indirect exposure is dominant in Myers Flat (65.7% of 102 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 34.3% sit in the Direct zone.
Where Myers Flat ranks
Inside California, Myers Flat sits at just the 21st percentile even though it scores 63rd 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, Myers Flat ranks 11,652 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,936 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,240 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Myers Flat and the insurance market
Because Myers Flat 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 Myers Flat
Because 65.7% of Myers Flat's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Myers Flat's 11,652-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Myers Flat, see the exposure-zones guide.