Lemoore, CA
Lemoore wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Lemoore lands at the 73rd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 8,151 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Lemoore's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 73rd percentile nationally.
Lemoore's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 5.8% of Lemoore's 8,151 buildings carry Direct exposure and 34% carry Indirect; the remaining 60.2% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 8,151 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Lemoore compares
Inside California, Lemoore sits at just the 31st percentile even though it scores 73rd 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, Lemoore ranks 8,468 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,059 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,087 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
Lemoore 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 73rd-percentile score like Lemoore's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
What would actually reduce this score
Lemoore's 60.2% 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.
Where Lemoore's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 8,151 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Lemoore. The exposure-zones guide covers what Lemoore's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.