Tranquillity, CA
How exposed is Tranquillity to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Tranquillity at the 64th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 377 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Tranquillity at the 62nd national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Tranquillity's buildings actually sit
94.4% of Tranquillity's 377 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 5.6% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Where Tranquillity ranks
Tranquillity ranks lower within California (22nd percentile statewide) than its 64th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Tranquillity ranks 11,428 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,712 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,225 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Tranquillity
Because Tranquillity 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
Tranquillity's 94.4% 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 Tranquillity's 11,428-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Tranquillity, see the exposure-zones guide.