Silverado Resort, CA
How exposed is Silverado Resort to wildfire?
Silverado Resort's 923 buildings earn a 94th-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 Silverado Resort at the 93rd percentile, close to its 94th-percentile risk score.
Where Silverado Resort's buildings actually sit
63.3% of Silverado Resort's 923 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 36.7% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
How Silverado Resort compares
Inside California, Silverado Resort sits at just the 70th percentile even though it scores 94th 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, Silverado Resort ranks 2,007 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,523 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 472 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Silverado Resort
Silverado Resort 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 94th-percentile score like Silverado Resort's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
Hardening a home in Silverado Resort
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Silverado Resort (63.3% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Silverado Resort's 2,007-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Silverado Resort, see the exposure-zones guide.