Newark, CA
Newark, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Newark at the 51st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 13,323 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Newark at the 54th national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Newark's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 0.6% of Newark's 13,323 buildings carry Direct exposure and 46% carry Indirect; the remaining 53.4% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 13,323 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Newark against the rest of the country
Inside California, Newark sits at just the 11th percentile even though it scores 51st 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, Newark ranks 15,591 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,140 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,401 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Newark
Newark's 51st-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
With 53.4% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Newark gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Newark's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 13,323 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Newark. The exposure-zones guide covers what Newark's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.