Oak Park, CA
How exposed is Oak Park to wildfire?
Oak Park's 4,083 buildings earn a 78th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Oak Park at the 77th percentile, close to its 78th-percentile risk score.
Oak Park's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 85.7% of Oak Park's 4,083 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 14.3% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where Oak Park ranks
Oak Park ranks lower within California (37th percentile statewide) than its 78th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Oak Park ranks 7,082 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,157 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 995 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Oak Park
Oak Park's 78th-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
Oak Park's 85.7% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Oak Park's 7,082-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Oak Park, see the exposure-zones guide.