Sunnyside, CA
Sunnyside, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Sunnyside sits at the 73rd percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 1,917 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Sunnyside at the 74th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Sunnyside's building exposure, zone by zone
Sunnyside rates 91% Minimal exposure against just 9% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 1,917 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Sunnyside against the rest of the country
Sunnyside ranks lower within California (30th percentile statewide) than its 73rd national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sunnyside ranks 8,596 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,717 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,093 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Sunnyside and the insurance market
Sunnyside 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 73rd-percentile score like Sunnyside's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
Hardening a home in Sunnyside
Sunnyside's 91% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Sunnyside's 8,596-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Sunnyside, see the exposure-zones guide.