Lost Hills, CA
Lost Hills, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Lost Hills at the 90th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 608 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Lost Hills's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 92nd percentile nationally.
Lost Hills's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 74.5% of Lost Hills's 608 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 25.5% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Lost Hills compares
Lost Hills ranks lower within California (61st percentile statewide) than its 90th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lost Hills ranks 3,236 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,712 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 615 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Lost Hills
Because Lost 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 74.5% of Lost Hills's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Lost Hills's 3,236-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Lost Hills, see the exposure-zones guide.