Moorpark, CA
Moorpark, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Moorpark's 10,742 buildings earn a 87th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Moorpark at the 87th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Moorpark's building exposure, zone by zone
Indirect exposure is dominant in Moorpark (89.5% of 10,742 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 10.6% sit in the Direct zone. At 10,742 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Moorpark against the rest of the country
Inside California, Moorpark sits at just the 55th percentile even though it scores 87th 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, Moorpark ranks 4,120 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,478 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 714 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Moorpark and the insurance market
Because Moorpark 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.
Hardening a home in Moorpark
Because 89.5% of Moorpark's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where Moorpark's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 10,742 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Moorpark. The exposure-zones guide covers what Moorpark's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.