Clovis, CA
How exposed is Clovis to wildfire?
USFS scores Clovis at the 88th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 40,892 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Clovis's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 91st percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
85.9% of Clovis's 40,892 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 5.7% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 40,892 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Clovis compares
Clovis's 88th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 57th ranking inside California does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 31 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Clovis ranks 3,710 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 235 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 672 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Clovis
Clovis's 88th-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.
Hardening a home in Clovis
Clovis's 85.9% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 40,892 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Clovis. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Clovis, see the exposure-zones guide.