Lemon Hill, CA
Lemon Hill wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Lemon Hill at the 40th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 3,631 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Lemon Hill at the 49th national percentile — 9 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Lemon Hill's building exposure, zone by zone
99.1% of Lemon Hill's 3,631 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 0.9% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
How Lemon Hill compares
Inside California, Lemon Hill sits at just the 6th percentile even though it scores 40th 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 Hill ranks 18,773 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,620 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,475 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Lemon Hill and the insurance market
Lemon Hill 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 40th-percentile score like Lemon Hill's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
Hardening a home in Lemon Hill
With 99.1% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Lemon Hill gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 3,631 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Lemon Hill. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Lemon Hill, see the exposure-zones guide.