Parksdale, CA
Parksdale, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Parksdale at the 89th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 986 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Parksdale at the 90th percentile, close to its 89th-percentile risk score.
Parksdale's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Parksdale's 986 counted buildings, 64.3% carry Direct exposure and only 9.2% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Parksdale compares
Parksdale's 89th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 58th ranking inside California does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 31 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Parksdale ranks 3,582 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,033 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 661 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Parksdale
Parksdale 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 89th-percentile score like Parksdale's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
What would actually reduce this score
Because Direct exposure dominates in Parksdale (64.3%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
Where Parksdale's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Parksdale's 3,582-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Parksdale's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.