Shingle Springs, CA
Shingle Springs wildfire risk explained
Shingle Springs's 2,601 buildings earn a 97th-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.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Shingle Springs at the 96th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Shingle Springs's 2,601 counted buildings, 82.4% carry Direct exposure and only 3% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Shingle Springs compares
Inside California, Shingle Springs sits at just the 79th percentile even though it scores 97th 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, Shingle Springs ranks 1,033 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,096 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 337 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shingle Springs and the insurance market
Shingle Springs's 97th-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
Shingle Springs's 82.4% 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.
More on how this number was built
Shingle Springs's 97th-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 Shingle Springs, see the exposure-zones guide.