Anaheim, CA
Anaheim, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Anaheim sits at the 96th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 72,034 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 Anaheim at the 96th percentile, close to its 96th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Anaheim's buildings (91.5% of 72,034) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure. At 72,034 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Anaheim ranks
Inside California, Anaheim sits at just the 77th percentile even though it scores 96th 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, Anaheim ranks 1,153 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 107 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 351 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Anaheim and the insurance market
Anaheim 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 96th-percentile score like Anaheim's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 91.5% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Anaheim 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Anaheim's 1,153-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Anaheim, see the exposure-zones guide.