Pollock Pines, CA
How exposed is Pollock Pines to wildfire?
Pollock Pines's 2,657 buildings earn a 98th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Pollock Pines at the 98th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 85.8% of Pollock Pines's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 14.2% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 2,280 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Pollock Pines compares
Pollock Pines scores 98th nationally and 86th within California — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pollock Pines ranks 498 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,009 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 227 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Pollock Pines
Because Pollock Pines 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 Pollock Pines
With 85.8% of Pollock Pines in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Pollock Pines's 98th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Pollock Pines, see the exposure-zones guide.