Orange Blossom, CA
Orange Blossom wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Orange Blossom at the 92nd national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 732 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 Orange Blossom at the 93rd percentile, close to its 92nd-percentile risk score.
Where Orange Blossom's buildings actually sit
732 buildings are counted in Orange Blossom, and 100% 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.
How Orange Blossom compares
Orange Blossom's 92nd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 66th ranking inside California does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 26 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Orange Blossom ranks 2,576 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,302 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 539 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Orange Blossom
Orange Blossom sits in California, one of two states that legally require a wildfire-risk disclosure at sale. California's FAIR Plan, the state's insurer of last resort, ended 2025 with 668,609 residential policies after adding 21,859 in Q4 alone — the kind of market shift a 92nd-percentile score like Orange Blossom's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Orange Blossom's 100% 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.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 732 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Orange Blossom. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Orange Blossom, see the exposure-zones guide.