Midway City, CA
How exposed is Midway City to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Midway City at the 36th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 1,971 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 Midway City at the 43rd percentile, close to its 36th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 0.1% of Midway City's 1,971 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.
Where Midway City ranks
Inside California, Midway City sits at just the 5th percentile even though it scores 36th 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, Midway City ranks 20,032 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,557 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,500 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Midway City
Because Midway City 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Midway City's 100% 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
Midway City's 36th-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 Midway City, see the exposure-zones guide.