Blythe, CA
Blythe, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Blythe's 5,897 buildings earn a 52nd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Blythe's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 55th percentile nationally.
Blythe's building exposure, zone by zone
Blythe rates 76.2% Minimal exposure against just 14.2% Direct and 9.6% Indirect — of 5,897 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 5,897 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Blythe ranks
Blythe's 52nd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 12th ranking inside California does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 40 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Blythe ranks 15,211 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,920 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,383 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Blythe
Because Blythe 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 Blythe
With 76.2% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Blythe 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Blythe's 15,211-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Blythe, see the exposure-zones guide.