Beaumont, CA
How exposed is Beaumont to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Beaumont at the 98th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 16,525 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 Beaumont at the 98th percentile, close to its 98th-percentile risk score.
Where Beaumont's buildings actually sit
Indirect exposure is dominant in Beaumont (64.1% of 16,525 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 14% sit in the Direct zone. At 16,525 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Beaumont compares
There's little gap between Beaumont's 98th national percentile and its 84th percentile inside California, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Beaumont ranks 620 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 878 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 256 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
Beaumont 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 98th-percentile score like Beaumont's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
What would actually reduce this score
Beaumont's 64.1% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Beaumont's 98th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Beaumont, see the exposure-zones guide.