East San Gabriel, CA
How exposed is East San Gabriel to wildfire?
USFS scores East San Gabriel at the 48th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 7,971 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks East San Gabriel at the 51st national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
East San Gabriel rates 99.5% Minimal exposure against just 0.5% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 7,971 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 7,971 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How East San Gabriel compares
East San Gabriel's 48th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 9th ranking inside California does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 39 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, East San Gabriel ranks 16,536 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,121 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,428 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in East San Gabriel
East San Gabriel 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 48th-percentile score like East San Gabriel's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
What would actually reduce this score
With 99.5% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, East San Gabriel gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 7,971 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for East San Gabriel. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond East San Gabriel, see the exposure-zones guide.