East Orosi, CA
How exposed is East Orosi to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts East Orosi at the 86th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 149 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, East Orosi's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 87th percentile nationally.
East Orosi's building exposure, zone by zone
East Orosi rates 79.2% Minimal exposure against just 20.8% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 149 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where East Orosi ranks
Inside California, East Orosi sits at just the 51st percentile even though it scores 86th 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 Orosi ranks 4,564 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,905 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 768 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in East Orosi
East Orosi's 86th-percentile score lands in California, the only two states requiring a wildfire disclosure at sale. California's surplus-lines homeowners market passed 300,000 policies for the first time in 2025, driven by carriers pulling back from wildfire-exposed areas statewide. The disclosure-law guide covers what it requires.
What would actually reduce this score
East Orosi's 79.2% 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 East Orosi's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind East Orosi's 4,564-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what East Orosi's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.