Sunny Slopes, CA
How exposed is Sunny Slopes to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Sunny Slopes lands at the 97th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 166 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 Sunny Slopes at the 94th percentile, close to its 97th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 89.2% of Sunny Slopes's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 10.8% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 148 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Sunny Slopes against the rest of the country
Sunny Slopes ranks lower within California (79th percentile statewide) than its 97th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sunny Slopes ranks 1,065 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,166 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 342 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Sunny Slopes and the insurance market
Sunny Slopes 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 97th-percentile score like Sunny Slopes's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
What would actually reduce this score
Sunny Slopes's 89.2% 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.
Where Sunny Slopes's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 166 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Sunny Slopes. The exposure-zones guide covers what Sunny Slopes's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.