Alhambra, CA
How exposed is Alhambra to wildfire?
Alhambra sits at the 50th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 25,146 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Alhambra at the 53rd percentile, close to its 50th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 0.3% of Alhambra's 25,146 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 99.8% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 25,146 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Alhambra ranks
Inside California, Alhambra sits at just the 11th percentile even though it scores 50th 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, Alhambra ranks 15,651 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 503 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,403 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Alhambra
Alhambra 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 50th-percentile score like Alhambra's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 99.8% of Alhambra 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Alhambra's 15,651-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Alhambra, see the exposure-zones guide.