Tuolumne City, CA
Tuolumne City wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Tuolumne City lands at the 99th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 1,090 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Tuolumne City at the 98th percentile, close to its 99th-percentile risk score.
Tuolumne City's building exposure, zone by zone
1,090 buildings are counted in Tuolumne City, and 50.6% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Tuolumne City against the rest of the country
Tuolumne City scores 99th nationally and 88th within California — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Tuolumne City ranks 378 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,339 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 189 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Tuolumne City
Because Tuolumne City 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
Because Direct exposure dominates in Tuolumne City (50.6%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Tuolumne City's 99th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Tuolumne City, see the exposure-zones guide.