Alpaugh, CA
Alpaugh, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Alpaugh's 337 buildings earn a 83rd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Alpaugh at the 87th percentile, close to its 83rd-percentile risk score.
Alpaugh's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 24.3% of Alpaugh's 337 buildings carry Direct exposure and 5.3% carry Indirect; the remaining 70.3% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Alpaugh against the rest of the country
Inside California, Alpaugh sits at just the 46th percentile even though it scores 83rd 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, Alpaugh ranks 5,220 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,651 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 850 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Alpaugh and the insurance market
Alpaugh's 83rd-percentile score lands in California, the only two states requiring a wildfire disclosure at sale. California's surplus-lines homeowners market passed 300,000 policies for the first time in 2025, driven by carriers pulling back from wildfire-exposed areas statewide. The disclosure-law guide covers what it requires.
What would actually reduce this score
With 70.3% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Alpaugh gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Alpaugh's 83rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Alpaugh, see the exposure-zones guide.