Redcrest, CA
Redcrest, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Redcrest at the 55th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 84 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Redcrest at the 57th percentile, close to its 55th-percentile risk score.
Where Redcrest's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 51.2% of Redcrest's 84 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 48.8% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Redcrest compares
Redcrest's 55th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 14th ranking inside California does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 41 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Redcrest ranks 14,077 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,717 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,346 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Redcrest
Redcrest 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 55th-percentile score like Redcrest's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
Hardening a home in Redcrest
Because 51.2% of Redcrest's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where Redcrest's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 84 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Redcrest. The exposure-zones guide covers what Redcrest's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.