Deer Park, CA
Deer Park wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Deer Park lands at the 87th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 920 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 Deer Park at the 87th percentile, close to its 87th-percentile risk score.
Where Deer Park's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 86.7% of Deer Park's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 13.3% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 798 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Deer Park compares
Deer Park ranks lower within California (55th percentile statewide) than its 87th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Deer Park ranks 4,054 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,553 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 706 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
Deer 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 87th-percentile score like Deer Park's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
What would actually reduce this score
With 86.7% of Deer 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Deer Park's 4,054-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Deer Park, see the exposure-zones guide.