Compton, CA
Compton wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Compton at the 24th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 28,554 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Compton at the 31st percentile, close to its 24th-percentile risk score.
Where Compton's buildings actually sit
Most of Compton's buildings (99.8% of 28,554) 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 28,554 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Compton ranks
Compton's 24th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 2nd 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, Compton ranks 23,974 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 416 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,537 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
Compton's 24th-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
Compton's 99.8% 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 28,554 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Compton. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Compton, see the exposure-zones guide.