Cabazon, CA
How exposed is Cabazon to wildfire?
USFS scores Cabazon at the 98th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 1,142 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Cabazon at the 98th percentile, close to its 98th-percentile risk score.
Cabazon's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Cabazon's 1,142 counted buildings, 52.4% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Cabazon compares
There's little gap between Cabazon's 98th national percentile and its 83rd percentile inside California, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Cabazon ranks 622 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,005 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 258 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Cabazon
Cabazon's 98th-percentile score lands in California, the only two states requiring a wildfire disclosure at sale. California's surplus-lines homeowners market passed 300,000 policies for the first time in 2025, driven by carriers pulling back from wildfire-exposed areas statewide. The disclosure-law guide covers what it requires.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Cabazon's 52.4% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,142 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Cabazon. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Cabazon, see the exposure-zones guide.