Lynwood, CA
How exposed is Lynwood to wildfire?
USFS scores Lynwood at the 37th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 16,812 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Lynwood at the 44th percentile, close to its 37th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 0.2% of Lynwood's 16,812 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 99.9% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 16,812 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Lynwood against the rest of the country
Lynwood ranks lower within California (5th percentile statewide) than its 37th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lynwood ranks 19,751 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 861 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,492 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Lynwood
Lynwood 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 37th-percentile score like Lynwood's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
What would actually reduce this score
Lynwood's 99.9% 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.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 16,812 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Lynwood. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Lynwood, see the exposure-zones guide.