Strawberry (Marin), CA
Strawberry (Marin), CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Strawberry (Marin) at the 61st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 1,606 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Strawberry (Marin) at the 62nd percentile, close to its 61st-percentile risk score.
Where Strawberry (Marin)'s buildings actually sit
Only 3.5% of Strawberry (Marin)'s 1,606 buildings carry Direct exposure and 21% carry Indirect; the remaining 75.5% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Strawberry (Marin) against the rest of the country
Strawberry (Marin)'s 61st national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 19th ranking inside California does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 42 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Strawberry (Marin) ranks 12,186 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,744 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,269 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Strawberry (Marin) 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 61st-percentile score like Strawberry (Marin)'s can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
What would actually reduce this score
Strawberry (Marin)'s 75.5% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where Strawberry (Marin)'s figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Strawberry (Marin)'s 12,186-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Strawberry (Marin)'s dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.