La Crescenta-Montrose, CA
How exposed is La Crescenta-Montrose to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, La Crescenta-Montrose lands at the 99th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 7,334 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks La Crescenta-Montrose at the 99th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
La Crescenta-Montrose's building exposure, zone by zone
Indirect exposure is dominant in La Crescenta-Montrose (89.6% of 7,334 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 9.6% sit in the Direct zone. At 7,334 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 Crescenta-Montrose ranks
La Crescenta-Montrose scores 99th nationally and 93rd within California — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, La Crescenta-Montrose ranks 216 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,327 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 124 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
La Crescenta-Montrose and the insurance market
La Crescenta-Montrose'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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 89.6% of La Crescenta-Montrose'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 Crescenta-Montrose's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind La Crescenta-Montrose's 216-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what La Crescenta-Montrose's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.