Menifee, CA
Menifee, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Menifee at the 93rd national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 37,098 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Menifee at the 93rd percentile, close to its 93rd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Menifee rates 50.4% Minimal exposure against just 20% Direct and 29.6% Indirect — of 37,098 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 37,098 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Menifee against the rest of the country
Menifee ranks lower within California (69th percentile statewide) than its 93rd national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Menifee ranks 2,197 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 279 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 495 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Menifee
Menifee's 93rd-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 50.4% of Menifee 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.
More on how this number was built
Menifee's 93rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Menifee, see the exposure-zones guide.