Garey, CA
Garey wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Garey at the 75th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 92 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Garey's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 72nd percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Garey's 92 counted buildings, 55.4% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Garey against the rest of the country
Garey's 75th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 33rd ranking inside California does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 42 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Garey ranks 7,840 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,389 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,051 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Garey
Garey's 75th-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
With 55.4% of Garey in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Garey's 7,840-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Garey, see the exposure-zones guide.