Tennant, CA
Tennant, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Tennant sits at the 85th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 127 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Tennant at the 88th percentile, close to its 85th-percentile risk score.
Where Tennant's buildings actually sit
70.9% of Tennant's 127 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 29.1% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
How Tennant compares
Tennant's 85th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 51st ranking inside California does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 35 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Tennant ranks 4,591 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,840 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 771 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Tennant and the insurance market
Tennant 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 85th-percentile score like Tennant's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Tennant (70.9% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
Where Tennant's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Tennant's 4,591-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Tennant's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.