Firebaugh, CA
Firebaugh, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Firebaugh's 2,168 buildings earn a 81st-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Firebaugh at the 81st national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Firebaugh's buildings (86.6%) 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.
How Firebaugh compares
Firebaugh's 81st national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 42nd 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, Firebaugh ranks 5,858 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,023 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 905 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Firebaugh and the insurance market
Because Firebaugh is in California, a wildfire-hazard disclosure is legally required before a sale closes here — unusual nationally, since only these two states mandate it. The state's FAIR Plan alone carried 668,609 policies by the end of 2025. Full detail in the disclosure-law guide.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 86.6% of Firebaugh's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Firebaugh's 5,858-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Firebaugh, see the exposure-zones guide.