Wilkerson, CA
How exposed is Wilkerson to wildfire?
USFS scores Wilkerson at the 71st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 407 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Wilkerson at the 76th national percentile — 5 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Wilkerson's buildings actually sit
77.9% of Wilkerson's 407 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 317 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 22.1% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
How Wilkerson compares
Wilkerson's 71st national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 28th ranking inside California does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 42 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wilkerson ranks 9,162 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,077 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,123 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Wilkerson
Wilkerson 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 71st-percentile score like Wilkerson's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Wilkerson's 77.9% 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 Wilkerson's 9,162-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Wilkerson, see the exposure-zones guide.