Azusa, CA
How exposed is Azusa to wildfire?
Azusa's 12,560 buildings earn a 91st-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 Azusa at the 90th percentile, close to its 91st-percentile risk score.
Where Azusa's buildings actually sit
Only 2.7% of Azusa's 12,560 buildings carry Direct exposure and 36.6% carry Indirect; the remaining 60.8% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 12,560 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Azusa against the rest of the country
Azusa's 91st national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 63rd ranking inside California does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 28 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Azusa ranks 2,917 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,225 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 579 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Azusa 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 91st-percentile score like Azusa's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
Hardening a home in Azusa
With 60.8% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Azusa 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
Azusa's 91st-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 Azusa, see the exposure-zones guide.