Yankee Hill, CA
Yankee Hill, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Yankee Hill at the 85th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 256 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Yankee Hill at the 85th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Yankee Hill's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 100% of Yankee Hill's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 0% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 256 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Yankee Hill compares
Yankee Hill's 85th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 51st ranking inside California does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 35 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Yankee Hill ranks 4,592 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,932 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 772 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Yankee Hill and the insurance market
Yankee 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 85th-percentile score like Yankee Hill's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
Hardening a home in Yankee Hill
Yankee Hill's 100% 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.
Where Yankee Hill's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 256 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Yankee Hill. The exposure-zones guide covers what Yankee Hill's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.