Colton, CA
Colton, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Colton lands at the 85th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 15,340 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Colton at the 86th percentile, close to its 85th-percentile risk score.
Where Colton's buildings actually sit
Most of Colton's buildings (66.8% of 15,340) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure. At 15,340 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Colton ranks
Inside California, Colton sits at just the 50th percentile even though it scores 85th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Colton ranks 4,781 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 966 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 793 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Colton and the insurance market
Colton's 85th-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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 66.8% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Colton gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 15,340 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Colton. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Colton, see the exposure-zones guide.