Lemon Grove, CA
How exposed is Lemon Grove to wildfire?
Lemon Grove sits at the 58th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 8,273 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Lemon Grove's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 59th percentile nationally.
Lemon Grove's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 99.5% of Lemon Grove's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 0.5% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 8,273 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Lemon Grove against the rest of the country
Inside California, Lemon Grove sits at just the 16th percentile even though it scores 58th 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, Lemon Grove ranks 13,195 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,020 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,317 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Lemon Grove
Lemon Grove 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 58th-percentile score like Lemon Grove's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
What would actually reduce this score
Lemon Grove's 99.5% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Lemon Grove's 13,195-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Lemon Grove, see the exposure-zones guide.