Tara Hills, CA
Tara Hills wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Tara Hills at the 37th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 1,611 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 Tara Hills at the 41st percentile, close to its 37th-percentile risk score.
Where Tara Hills's buildings actually sit
99.9% of Tara Hills's 1,611 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 0.1% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Tara Hills against the rest of the country
Inside California, Tara Hills sits at just the 5th percentile even though it scores 37th 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, Tara Hills ranks 19,719 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,725 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,490 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Tara Hills and the insurance market
Because Tara Hills is in California, a wildfire-hazard disclosure is legally required before a sale closes here — unusual nationally, since only these two states mandate it. The state's FAIR Plan alone carried 668,609 policies by the end of 2025. Full detail in the disclosure-law guide.
Hardening a home in Tara Hills
Even with 99.9% of Tara Hills outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
Where Tara Hills's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Tara Hills's 19,719-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Tara Hills's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.