La Cañada Flintridge, CA
La Cañada Flintridge wildfire risk explained
La Cañada Flintridge's 9,817 buildings earn a 99th-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.)
Separately from the risk score above, La Cañada Flintridge's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 99th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
54.9% of La Cañada Flintridge's 9,817 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 33.6% Direct and 11.5% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone. At 9,817 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where La Cañada Flintridge ranks
There's little gap between La Cañada Flintridge's 99th national percentile and its 91st percentile inside California, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, La Cañada Flintridge ranks 247 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,656 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 138 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
La Cañada Flintridge's 99th-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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 54.9% of La Cañada Flintridge's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where La Cañada Flintridge's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 9,817 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for La Cañada Flintridge. The exposure-zones guide covers what La Cañada Flintridge's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.