Johnson Park, CA
Johnson Park, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Johnson Park sits at the 87th 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 393 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 Johnson Park at the 88th percentile, close to its 87th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 62.1% of Johnson Park's 393 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 37.9% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Johnson Park compares
Johnson Park's 87th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 55th ranking inside California does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 32 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Johnson Park ranks 3,993 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,347 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 701 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Because Johnson Park 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 Johnson Park
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Johnson Park (62.1% 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
Johnson Park's 87th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Johnson Park, see the exposure-zones guide.