Lenwood, CA
How exposed is Lenwood to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Lenwood at the 36th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 1,574 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Lenwood at the 40th national percentile — 4 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Lenwood's building exposure, zone by zone
Lenwood rates 42.2% Minimal exposure against just 24.3% Direct and 33.6% Indirect — of 1,574 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Lenwood ranks
Lenwood's 36th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 4th ranking inside California does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 32 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lenwood ranks 20,160 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,864 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,505 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
Because Lenwood 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
Even with 42.2% of Lenwood outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
Where Lenwood's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Lenwood's 20,160-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Lenwood's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.