Burbank (Los Angeles), CA
Burbank (Los Angeles) wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Burbank (Los Angeles) lands at the 91st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 36,810 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Burbank (Los Angeles) at the 88th percentile, close to its 91st-percentile risk score.
Burbank (Los Angeles)'s building exposure, zone by zone
56.1% of Burbank (Los Angeles)'s 36,810 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 1% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 36,810 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Burbank (Los Angeles) compares
Burbank (Los Angeles) ranks lower within California (64th percentile statewide) than its 91st national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Burbank (Los Angeles) ranks 2,795 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 281 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 564 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
Burbank (Los Angeles) 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 Burbank (Los Angeles)'s can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
What would actually reduce this score
Burbank (Los Angeles)'s 56.1% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Burbank (Los Angeles)'s 2,795-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Burbank (Los Angeles), see the exposure-zones guide.