Buena Park, CA
How exposed is Buena Park to wildfire?
Buena Park sits at the 54th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 21,804 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Buena Park at the 59th percentile, close to its 54th-percentile risk score.
Where Buena Park's buildings actually sit
99.4% of Buena Park's 21,804 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 0.6% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 21,804 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Buena Park against the rest of the country
Buena Park's 54th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 13th ranking inside California does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 41 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Buena Park ranks 14,486 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 630 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,359 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Buena Park
Buena Park 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 54th-percentile score like Buena Park's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
What would actually reduce this score
With 99.4% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Buena Park gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Buena Park's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 21,804 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Buena Park. The exposure-zones guide covers what Buena Park's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.