Homewood Canyon, CA
Homewood Canyon wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Homewood Canyon at the 60th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 80 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Homewood Canyon at the 59th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Homewood Canyon's building exposure, zone by zone
100% of Homewood Canyon's 80 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 80 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 0% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Where Homewood Canyon ranks
Homewood Canyon ranks lower within California (18th percentile statewide) than its 60th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Homewood Canyon ranks 12,756 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,872 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,294 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Homewood Canyon
Homewood Canyon's 60th-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Homewood Canyon's 100% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 80 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Homewood Canyon. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Homewood Canyon, see the exposure-zones guide.