Aromas, CA
How exposed is Aromas to wildfire?
USFS scores Aromas at the 87th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 1,534 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Aromas at the 87th national percentile — 0 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
Of Aromas's 1,534 counted buildings, 81.1% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Aromas compares
Inside California, Aromas sits at just the 54th percentile even though it scores 87th 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, Aromas ranks 4,116 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,012 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 710 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Aromas
Because Aromas 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
Aromas's 81.1% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
Where Aromas's figures come from
Aromas's 87th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Aromas's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.