Round Mountain, CA
Round Mountain, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Round Mountain at the 99th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 148 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Round Mountain at the 99th percentile, close to its 99th-percentile risk score.
Where Round Mountain's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Round Mountain: 95.3% of its 148 buildings, versus 4.7% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Round Mountain compares
Round Mountain's risk sits at a similar level relative to California (92nd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (99th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Round Mountain ranks 219 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,942 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 127 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Round Mountain
Round Mountain's 99th-percentile score lands in California, the only two states requiring a wildfire disclosure at sale. California's surplus-lines homeowners market passed 300,000 policies for the first time in 2025, driven by carriers pulling back from wildfire-exposed areas statewide. The disclosure-law guide covers what it requires.
What would actually reduce this score
Round Mountain's 95.3% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
Where Round Mountain's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Round Mountain's 219-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Round Mountain's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.