Lexington Hills, CA
Lexington Hills wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Lexington Hills lands at the 94th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 1,090 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Lexington Hills at the 93rd national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Lexington Hills's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Lexington Hills's 1,090 counted buildings, 80.3% carry Direct exposure and only 0.7% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Lexington Hills ranks
Lexington Hills ranks lower within California (72nd percentile statewide) than its 94th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lexington Hills ranks 1,786 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,338 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 438 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Lexington Hills and the insurance market
Because Lexington Hills 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
Because Direct exposure dominates in Lexington Hills (80.3%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
Where Lexington Hills's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Lexington Hills's 1,786-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Lexington Hills's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.