Dinuba, CA
Dinuba, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Dinuba's 6,950 buildings earn a 83rd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Dinuba at the 84th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Dinuba's buildings actually sit
Most of Dinuba's buildings (93.1% of 6,950) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure. At 6,950 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Dinuba against the rest of the country
Inside California, Dinuba sits at just the 44th percentile even though it scores 83rd 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, Dinuba ranks 5,506 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,491 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 873 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Dinuba
Dinuba 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 83rd-percentile score like Dinuba's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 93.1% of Dinuba 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
Dinuba's 83rd-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 Dinuba, see the exposure-zones guide.