Sequoia Crest, CA
Sequoia Crest wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Sequoia Crest at the 85th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 71 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Sequoia Crest at the 86th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Sequoia Crest's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Sequoia Crest: 100% of its 71 buildings, versus 0% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Sequoia Crest against the rest of the country
Sequoia Crest's 85th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 51st ranking inside California does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 35 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sequoia Crest ranks 4,661 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,234 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 780 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Sequoia Crest
Sequoia Crest's 85th-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 100% of Sequoia Crest 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.
More on how this number was built
Sequoia Crest's 85th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Sequoia Crest, see the exposure-zones guide.