Rodriguez Camp, CA
How exposed is Rodriguez Camp to wildfire?
USFS scores Rodriguez Camp at the 73rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 105 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 Rodriguez Camp at the 74th percentile, close to its 73rd-percentile risk score.
Rodriguez Camp's building exposure, zone by zone
83.8% of Rodriguez Camp's 105 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 88 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 0% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 16.2% are Minimal.
How Rodriguez Camp compares
Rodriguez Camp ranks lower within California (31st percentile statewide) than its 73rd national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Rodriguez Camp ranks 8,439 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,793 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,086 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Rodriguez Camp
Rodriguez Camp 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 73rd-percentile score like Rodriguez Camp's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
Hardening a home in Rodriguez Camp
With 83.8% of Rodriguez Camp 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.
Where Rodriguez Camp's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Rodriguez Camp's 8,439-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Rodriguez Camp's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.