Redway, CA
Redway, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Redway sits at the 66th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 698 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 Redway at the 68th percentile, close to its 66th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Indirect exposure is dominant in Redway (55.4% of 698 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 44.6% sit in the Direct zone.
How Redway compares
Inside California, Redway sits at just the 24th percentile even though it scores 66th 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, Redway ranks 10,580 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,669 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,195 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Redway 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 66th-percentile score like Redway's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Redway (55.4% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Redway's 10,580-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Redway, see the exposure-zones guide.