Hesperia, CA
How exposed is Hesperia to wildfire?
Hesperia's 35,741 buildings earn a 95th-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.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Hesperia at the 93rd percentile, close to its 95th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Hesperia's buildings (56.3% of 35,741) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure. At 35,741 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Hesperia ranks
Hesperia's 95th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 75th ranking inside California does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 21 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hesperia ranks 1,472 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 297 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 397 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Hesperia
Because Hesperia 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.
Hardening a home in Hesperia
Hesperia's 56.3% 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.
Where Hesperia's figures come from
Hesperia's 95th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Hesperia's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.