Winters, CA
Winters, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Winters's 2,552 buildings earn a 94th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Winters at the 94th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Winters's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 91.6% of Winters's 2,552 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 8.4% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Winters compares
Winters ranks lower within California (72nd percentile statewide) than its 94th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Winters ranks 1,820 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,196 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 446 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Winters
Because Winters 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 91.6% of Winters's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where Winters's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 2,552 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Winters. The exposure-zones guide covers what Winters's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.