Myrtletown, CA
Myrtletown wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Myrtletown lands at the 45th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 2,292 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 Myrtletown at the 49th percentile, close to its 45th-percentile risk score.
Where Myrtletown's buildings actually sit
Indirect exposure is dominant in Myrtletown (88.6% of 2,292 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 11.4% sit in the Direct zone.
Where Myrtletown ranks
Inside California, Myrtletown sits at just the 8th percentile even though it scores 45th 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, Myrtletown ranks 17,262 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,713 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,449 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Myrtletown and the insurance market
Because Myrtletown 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
Myrtletown's 88.6% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Myrtletown's 17,262-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Myrtletown, see the exposure-zones guide.