Pine Mountain Club, CA
Pine Mountain Club, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Pine Mountain Club at the 100th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 2,314 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Pine Mountain Club at the 99th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Pine Mountain Club's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Pine Mountain Club's 2,314 counted buildings, 83.6% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Pine Mountain Club compares
There's little gap between Pine Mountain Club's 100th national percentile and its 97th percentile inside California, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pine Mountain Club ranks 102 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,671 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 66 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Pine Mountain Club and the insurance market
Because Pine Mountain Club 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 Pine Mountain Club
Because Direct exposure dominates in Pine Mountain Club (83.6%), 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 2,314 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Pine Mountain Club. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Pine Mountain Club, see the exposure-zones guide.