Lakeland Village, CA
Lakeland Village, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Lakeland Village sits at the 100th 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 4,659 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Lakeland Village at the 100th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Lakeland Village's buildings (77.1%) 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 Lakeland Village ranks
Lakeland Village's risk sits at a similar level relative to California (96th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (100th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lakeland Village ranks 95 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,650 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 59 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Lakeland Village and the insurance market
Because Lakeland Village 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.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Lakeland Village (77.1% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 4,659 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Lakeland Village. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Lakeland Village, see the exposure-zones guide.