Fowler, CA
How exposed is Fowler to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Fowler at the 51st national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 2,373 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Fowler at the 51st percentile, close to its 51st-percentile risk score.
Where Fowler's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 94.2% of Fowler's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 5.8% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Fowler compares
Fowler ranks lower within California (11th percentile statewide) than its 51st national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Fowler ranks 15,435 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,562 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,397 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Fowler
Because Fowler 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Fowler's 94.2% 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.
More on how this number was built
Fowler's 51st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Fowler, see the exposure-zones guide.