Proberta, CA
Proberta, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Proberta sits at the 86th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 201 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Proberta at the 88th percentile, close to its 86th-percentile risk score.
Proberta's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 84.6% of Proberta's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 15.4% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 170 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Proberta against the rest of the country
Proberta's 86th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 52nd ranking inside California does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 34 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Proberta ranks 4,405 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,793 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 750 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Proberta
Proberta's 86th-percentile score lands in California, the only two states requiring a wildfire disclosure at sale. California's surplus-lines homeowners market passed 300,000 policies for the first time in 2025, driven by carriers pulling back from wildfire-exposed areas statewide. The disclosure-law guide covers what it requires.
Hardening a home in Proberta
Proberta's 84.6% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Proberta's 4,405-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Proberta, see the exposure-zones guide.