Airport, CA
How exposed is Airport to wildfire?
USFS scores Airport at the 60th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 563 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Airport at the 65th percentile, close to its 60th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
96.6% of Airport's 563 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 3.4% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Where Airport ranks
Airport's 60th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 18th 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, Airport ranks 12,470 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,349 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,279 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Because Airport 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
Even with 96.6% of Airport outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
Where Airport's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 563 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Airport. The exposure-zones guide covers what Airport's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.