Rosedale, CA
How exposed is Rosedale to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Rosedale lands at the 81st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 9,474 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Rosedale's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 83rd percentile nationally.
Rosedale's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 62.1% of Rosedale's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 30.2% Direct and 7.7% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 9,474 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Rosedale ranks
Rosedale ranks lower within California (42nd percentile statewide) than its 81st national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Rosedale ranks 5,953 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,720 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 913 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Rosedale and the insurance market
Rosedale 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 81st-percentile score like Rosedale's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
What would actually reduce this score
With 62.1% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Rosedale gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Rosedale's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Rosedale's 5,953-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Rosedale's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.