Avocado Heights, CA
How exposed is Avocado Heights to wildfire?
USFS scores Avocado Heights at the 66th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 4,784 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Avocado Heights's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 66th percentile nationally.
Avocado Heights's building exposure, zone by zone
Avocado Heights rates 50.1% Minimal exposure against just 3.7% Direct and 46.1% Indirect — of 4,784 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Avocado Heights against the rest of the country
Avocado Heights's 66th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 24th 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, Avocado Heights ranks 10,831 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,564 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,200 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Avocado Heights
Because Avocado Heights 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
With 50.1% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Avocado Heights 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 4,784 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Avocado Heights. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Avocado Heights, see the exposure-zones guide.