La Presa, CA
How exposed is La Presa to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts La Presa at the 84th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 9,453 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts La Presa at the 85th percentile, close to its 84th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 59.6% of La Presa's 9,453 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 4.3% Direct and 36.1% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to. At 9,453 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 Presa ranks
Inside California, La Presa sits at just the 48th percentile even though it scores 84th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, La Presa ranks 5,005 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,727 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 821 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 Presa 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 84th-percentile score like La Presa's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 59.6% of La Presa'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 Presa's figures come from
La Presa's 84th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what La Presa's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.