Tarpey Village, CA
Tarpey Village, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Tarpey Village at the 45th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 1,578 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Tarpey Village at the 52nd percentile, close to its 45th-percentile risk score.
Tarpey Village's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 1% of Tarpey Village's 1,578 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 99% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Tarpey Village ranks
Tarpey Village ranks lower within California (8th percentile statewide) than its 45th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Tarpey Village ranks 17,323 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,840 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,450 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Tarpey Village
Because Tarpey Village 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 99% of Tarpey Village 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 Tarpey Village's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,578 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Tarpey Village. The exposure-zones guide covers what Tarpey Village's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.