Mayfair, CA
Mayfair wildfire risk explained
Mayfair sits at the 35th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 1,624 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Mayfair at the 42nd national percentile — 7 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Mayfair's buildings actually sit
Most of Mayfair's buildings (99.7% of 1,624) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
Where Mayfair ranks
Inside California, Mayfair sits at just the 4th percentile even though it scores 35th 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, Mayfair ranks 20,475 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,679 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,510 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Mayfair
Mayfair's 35th-percentile score lands in California, the only two states requiring a wildfire disclosure at sale. California's surplus-lines homeowners market passed 300,000 policies for the first time in 2025, driven by carriers pulling back from wildfire-exposed areas statewide. The disclosure-law guide covers what it requires.
What would actually reduce this score
Mayfair's 99.7% 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 1,624 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Mayfair. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Mayfair, see the exposure-zones guide.