Agoura Hills, CA
How exposed is Agoura Hills to wildfire?
Agoura Hills's 6,700 buildings earn a 80th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Agoura Hills at the 81st national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Indirect exposure is dominant in Agoura Hills (79.6% of 6,700 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 13.5% sit in the Direct zone. At 6,700 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Agoura Hills against the rest of the country
Inside California, Agoura Hills sits at just the 40th percentile even though it scores 80th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Agoura Hills ranks 6,359 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,585 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 936 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Agoura Hills
Because Agoura Hills 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Agoura Hills's 79.6% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Agoura Hills's 80th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Agoura Hills, see the exposure-zones guide.