Corning, CA
Corning, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Corning lands at the 89th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 3,081 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 Corning at the 90th percentile, close to its 89th-percentile risk score.
Corning's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 14% of Corning's 3,081 buildings carry Direct exposure and 8.2% carry Indirect; the remaining 77.8% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Corning ranks
Corning's 89th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 59th ranking inside California does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 30 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Corning ranks 3,457 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,311 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 644 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Corning
Corning 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 89th-percentile score like Corning's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Corning's 77.8% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Corning's 3,457-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Corning, see the exposure-zones guide.