Fire officials are disputing a new report that claims 80 percent of homes in Tuolumne County are at high or extreme risk of wildfire.
Verisk Insurance Solutions, which bills itself as a leading source of information about property and casualty insurance risk, recently published its annual FireLine State Risk Report for 2017 that listed Tuolumne County as having the fourth highest percentage of homes in high or extreme wildfire danger out of all 58 counties in California.
California was also listed as the state with the highest number of homes at high or extreme risk of wildfire.
The four counties with a higher percentage of homes in the high or extreme risk category were Mariposa and Trinity at 81 percent and Alpine at 88 percent, according to the report. Los Angeles County had the highest number of homes, 441,300, in the same risk category.