Sanger, CA
How exposed is Sanger to wildfire?
Sanger's 8,105 buildings earn a 84th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Sanger at the 86th percentile, close to its 84th-percentile risk score.
Where Sanger's buildings actually sit
66.3% of Sanger's 8,105 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 5.2% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 8,105 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Sanger against the rest of the country
Sanger ranks lower within California (47th percentile statewide) than its 84th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sanger ranks 5,034 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,073 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 826 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Sanger
Sanger 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 84th-percentile score like Sanger's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
Hardening a home in Sanger
Sanger's 66.3% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 8,105 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Sanger. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Sanger, see the exposure-zones guide.