Oroville East, CA
Oroville East, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Oroville East lands at the 93rd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 5,163 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 Oroville East at the 93rd percentile, close to its 93rd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
5,163 buildings are counted in Oroville East, and 81.9% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0.9% rated Minimal. At 5,163 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Oroville East against the rest of the country
Inside California, Oroville East sits at just the 68th percentile even though it scores 93rd 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, Oroville East ranks 2,324 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,338 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 510 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Oroville East
Oroville East 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 93rd-percentile score like Oroville East's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
What would actually reduce this score
Because Direct exposure dominates in Oroville East (81.9%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Oroville East's 2,324-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Oroville East, see the exposure-zones guide.