Jacumba, CA
Jacumba, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Jacumba sits at the 91st percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 379 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Jacumba at the 89th percentile, close to its 91st-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Jacumba's buildings (51.2%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Where Jacumba ranks
Jacumba ranks lower within California (64th percentile statewide) than its 91st national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Jacumba ranks 2,856 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,664 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 572 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Jacumba
Jacumba sits in California, one of two states that legally require a wildfire-risk disclosure at sale. California's FAIR Plan, the state's insurer of last resort, ended 2025 with 668,609 residential policies after adding 21,859 in Q4 alone — the kind of market shift a 91st-percentile score like Jacumba's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Jacumba (51.2% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Jacumba's 2,856-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Jacumba, see the exposure-zones guide.