Maywood, CA
How exposed is Maywood to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Maywood lands at the 9th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 5,741 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Maywood at the 10th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 0% of Maywood's 5,741 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 100% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 5,741 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Maywood against the rest of the country
Maywood's risk sits at a similar level relative to California (0th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (9th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Maywood ranks 28,544 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,011 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,563 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
Maywood 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 9th-percentile score like Maywood's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 100% of Maywood 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 Maywood's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 5,741 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Maywood. The exposure-zones guide covers what Maywood's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.