Rolling Hills (Madera), CA
Rolling Hills (Madera), CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Rolling Hills (Madera) sits at the 87th 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 515 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Rolling Hills (Madera)'s burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 88th percentile nationally.
Where Rolling Hills (Madera)'s buildings actually sit
Most of Rolling Hills (Madera)'s buildings (76.9%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Rolling Hills (Madera) against the rest of the country
Inside California, Rolling Hills (Madera) sits at just the 55th percentile even though it scores 87th 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, Rolling Hills (Madera) ranks 4,056 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,096 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 708 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Rolling Hills (Madera)
Rolling Hills (Madera) 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 87th-percentile score like Rolling Hills (Madera)'s can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
What would actually reduce this score
Rolling Hills (Madera)'s 76.9% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
Where Rolling Hills (Madera)'s figures come from
Rolling Hills (Madera)'s 87th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Rolling Hills (Madera)'s dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.