Earlimart, CA
How exposed is Earlimart to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Earlimart at the 75th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 1,923 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Earlimart at the 77th percentile, close to its 75th-percentile risk score.
Where Earlimart's buildings actually sit
Only 6.9% of Earlimart's 1,923 buildings carry Direct exposure and 5.5% carry Indirect; the remaining 87.6% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Earlimart compares
Earlimart's 75th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 34th ranking inside California does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 42 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Earlimart ranks 7,776 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,699 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,045 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Earlimart
Earlimart 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 75th-percentile score like Earlimart's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Earlimart's 87.6% 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.
Where Earlimart's figures come from
Earlimart's 75th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Earlimart's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.