Casa de Oro-Mount Helix, CA
How exposed is Casa de Oro-Mount Helix to wildfire?
Casa de Oro-Mount Helix's 7,954 buildings earn a 71st-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Casa de Oro-Mount Helix's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 72nd percentile nationally.
Casa de Oro-Mount Helix's building exposure, zone by zone
80.7% of Casa de Oro-Mount Helix's 7,954 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 16.7% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 7,954 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Casa de Oro-Mount Helix compares
Casa de Oro-Mount Helix's 71st national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 29th ranking inside California does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 42 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Casa de Oro-Mount Helix ranks 9,066 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,128 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,115 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Casa de Oro-Mount Helix
Casa de Oro-Mount Helix 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 71st-percentile score like Casa de Oro-Mount Helix's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Casa de Oro-Mount Helix's 80.7% 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 Casa de Oro-Mount Helix's 9,066-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Casa de Oro-Mount Helix, see the exposure-zones guide.