Crows Landing, CA
How exposed is Crows Landing to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Crows Landing at the 76th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 231 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Crows Landing at the 77th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Crows Landing's buildings actually sit
Only 26% of Crows Landing's 231 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 74% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Crows Landing against the rest of the country
Inside California, Crows Landing sits at just the 35th percentile even though it scores 76th 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, Crows Landing ranks 7,523 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,754 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,022 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
Because Crows Landing is in California, a wildfire-hazard disclosure is legally required before a sale closes here — unusual nationally, since only these two states mandate it. The state's FAIR Plan alone carried 668,609 policies by the end of 2025. Full detail in the disclosure-law guide.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 74% of Crows Landing 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Crows Landing's 7,523-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Crows Landing, see the exposure-zones guide.