Cypress, CA
Cypress wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Cypress lands at the 40th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 13,434 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Cypress at the 47th national percentile — 7 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Cypress's buildings actually sit
99.6% of Cypress's 13,434 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 0.5% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 13,434 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Cypress against the rest of the country
Cypress ranks lower within California (6th percentile statewide) than its 40th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Cypress ranks 19,024 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,128 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,479 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Cypress and the insurance market
Cypress 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 40th-percentile score like Cypress's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
What would actually reduce this score
Cypress's 99.6% 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
Cypress's 40th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Cypress, see the exposure-zones guide.