Daphnedale Park, CA
Daphnedale Park, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Daphnedale Park sits at the 85th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 139 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Daphnedale Park at the 86th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Daphnedale Park's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Daphnedale Park's 139 counted buildings, 93.5% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Daphnedale Park compares
Daphnedale Park's 85th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 49th ranking inside California does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 36 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Daphnedale Park ranks 4,877 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,318 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 801 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
Daphnedale Park 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 85th-percentile score like Daphnedale Park's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
Hardening a home in Daphnedale Park
With 93.5% of Daphnedale Park in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
Where Daphnedale Park's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Daphnedale Park's 4,877-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Daphnedale Park's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.