Sierra Brooks, CA
Sierra Brooks wildfire risk explained
Sierra Brooks's 282 buildings earn a 99th-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.)
Separately from the risk score above, Sierra Brooks's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 99th percentile nationally.
Where Sierra Brooks's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Sierra Brooks: 100% of its 282 buildings, versus 0% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Sierra Brooks compares
Sierra Brooks's risk sits at a similar level relative to California (93rd 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, Sierra Brooks ranks 190 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,112 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 111 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Sierra Brooks
Sierra Brooks 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 99th-percentile score like Sierra Brooks's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
Hardening a home in Sierra Brooks
Sierra Brooks's 100% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Sierra Brooks's 190-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Sierra Brooks, see the exposure-zones guide.