Patterson Tract, CA
Patterson Tract, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Patterson Tract at the 77th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 933 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Patterson Tract's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 78th percentile nationally.
Where Patterson Tract's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Patterson Tract: 67.2% of its 933 buildings, versus 32.8% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Patterson Tract against the rest of the country
Inside California, Patterson Tract sits at just the 35th percentile even though it scores 77th 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, Patterson Tract ranks 7,368 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,439 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,014 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Patterson Tract and the insurance market
Patterson Tract 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 77th-percentile score like Patterson Tract's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
Hardening a home in Patterson Tract
Because Direct exposure dominates in Patterson Tract (67.2%), 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 Patterson Tract's 7,368-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Patterson Tract, see the exposure-zones guide.