East Rancho Dominguez, CA
How exposed is East Rancho Dominguez to wildfire?
East Rancho Dominguez's 3,734 buildings earn a 19th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks East Rancho Dominguez at the 25th national percentile — 6 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
East Rancho Dominguez's building exposure, zone by zone
99.9% of East Rancho Dominguez's 3,734 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 0.1% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
How East Rancho Dominguez compares
East Rancho Dominguez's 19th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 1st ranking inside California does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 18 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, East Rancho Dominguez ranks 25,517 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,487 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,548 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
East Rancho Dominguez 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 19th-percentile score like East Rancho Dominguez's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
What would actually reduce this score
East Rancho Dominguez's 99.9% 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.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 3,734 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for East Rancho Dominguez. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond East Rancho Dominguez, see the exposure-zones guide.