Vine Hill, CA
Vine Hill, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Vine Hill's 1,762 buildings earn a 52nd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Vine Hill at the 56th percentile, close to its 52nd-percentile risk score.
Vine Hill's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 5.8% of Vine Hill's 1,762 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 94.2% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Vine Hill compares
Vine Hill's 52nd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 12th ranking inside California does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 40 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Vine Hill ranks 15,023 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,186 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,375 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Vine Hill
Vine Hill 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 52nd-percentile score like Vine Hill's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
What would actually reduce this score
With 94.2% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Vine Hill gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Vine Hill's 15,023-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Vine Hill, see the exposure-zones guide.