Camp Pendleton Mainside, CA
Camp Pendleton Mainside, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Camp Pendleton Mainside at the 94th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 1,837 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Camp Pendleton Mainside at the 96th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Camp Pendleton Mainside's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 75% of Camp Pendleton Mainside's 1,837 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 24.7% Direct and 0.3% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Camp Pendleton Mainside compares
Camp Pendleton Mainside's 94th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 72nd ranking inside California does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 22 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Camp Pendleton Mainside ranks 1,751 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,955 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 435 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Camp Pendleton Mainside
Because Camp Pendleton Mainside 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 75% of Camp Pendleton Mainside's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where Camp Pendleton Mainside's figures come from
Camp Pendleton Mainside's 94th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Camp Pendleton Mainside's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.