Sleepy Hollow, CA
Sleepy Hollow, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Sleepy Hollow lands at the 89th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 1,144 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Sleepy Hollow at the 90th percentile, close to its 89th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
1,144 buildings are counted in Sleepy Hollow, and 68.7% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Where Sleepy Hollow ranks
Sleepy Hollow ranks lower within California (60th percentile statewide) than its 89th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sleepy Hollow ranks 3,366 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,994 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 637 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Sleepy Hollow
Sleepy Hollow 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 89th-percentile score like Sleepy Hollow's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Sleepy Hollow's 68.7% 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
Sleepy Hollow's 89th-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 Sleepy Hollow, see the exposure-zones guide.