Baldwin Park, CA
Baldwin Park, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Baldwin Park at the 64th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 18,819 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Baldwin Park at the 67th percentile, close to its 64th-percentile risk score.
Where Baldwin Park's buildings actually sit
Most of Baldwin Park's buildings (99.6% of 18,819) 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 18,819 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Baldwin Park ranks
Baldwin Park's 64th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 22nd 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, Baldwin Park ranks 11,334 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 757 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,219 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Baldwin Park
Because Baldwin Park 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.
Hardening a home in Baldwin Park
Baldwin Park's 99.6% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where Baldwin Park's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Baldwin Park's 11,334-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Baldwin Park's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.