Volta, CA
How exposed is Volta to wildfire?
USFS scores Volta at the 80th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 284 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Volta at the 79th percentile, close to its 80th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
61.6% of Volta's 284 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 175 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 37.3% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 1.1% are Minimal.
Where Volta ranks
Volta ranks lower within California (41st percentile statewide) than its 80th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Volta ranks 6,326 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,050 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 935 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Volta and the insurance market
Because Volta 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.
Hardening a home in Volta
Volta's 61.6% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Volta's 6,326-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Volta, see the exposure-zones guide.