Mount Hermon, CA
Mount Hermon wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Mount Hermon lands at the 68th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 466 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Mount Hermon at the 70th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Mount Hermon's building exposure, zone by zone
466 buildings are counted in Mount Hermon, and 79% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Mount Hermon against the rest of the country
Mount Hermon ranks lower within California (25th percentile statewide) than its 68th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mount Hermon ranks 10,201 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,951 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,179 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Mount Hermon
Because Mount Hermon 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
Mount Hermon's 79% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
Where Mount Hermon's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Mount Hermon's 10,201-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Mount Hermon's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.