Citrus, CA
Citrus, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Citrus at the 56th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 2,676 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Citrus at the 57th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Citrus's buildings actually sit
Citrus rates 99.7% Minimal exposure against just 0.3% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 2,676 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Citrus ranks
Citrus's 56th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 15th 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, Citrus ranks 13,762 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,969 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,336 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
Citrus 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 56th-percentile score like Citrus's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 99.7% of Citrus outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
Where Citrus's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Citrus's 13,762-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Citrus's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.