East Foothills, CA
How exposed is East Foothills to wildfire?
USFS scores East Foothills at the 91st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 2,743 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, East Foothills's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 93rd percentile nationally.
Where East Foothills's buildings actually sit
Most of East Foothills's buildings (86.8%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Where East Foothills ranks
Inside California, East Foothills sits at just the 65th percentile even though it scores 91st 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, East Foothills ranks 2,698 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,862 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 552 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in East Foothills
East Foothills 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 91st-percentile score like East Foothills's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in East Foothills (86.8% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind East Foothills's 2,698-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond East Foothills, see the exposure-zones guide.