Goshen, CA
Goshen wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Goshen at the 65th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 1,540 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Goshen at the 66th percentile, close to its 65th-percentile risk score.
Goshen's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 84.8% of Goshen's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 15.2% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Goshen against the rest of the country
Inside California, Goshen sits at just the 23rd percentile even though it scores 65th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Goshen ranks 10,927 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,981 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,204 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Goshen
Goshen's 65th-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.
Hardening a home in Goshen
Goshen's 84.8% 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
Goshen's 65th-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 Goshen, see the exposure-zones guide.