Spaulding, CA
Spaulding, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Spaulding at the 95th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 668 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Spaulding at the 94th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Spaulding's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Spaulding: 59.3% of its 668 buildings, versus 40.7% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Spaulding ranks
Inside California, Spaulding sits at just the 74th percentile even though it scores 95th 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, Spaulding ranks 1,536 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,979 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 407 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Spaulding
Spaulding 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 95th-percentile score like Spaulding's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
Hardening a home in Spaulding
With 59.3% of Spaulding 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
Spaulding's 95th-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 Spaulding, see the exposure-zones guide.