Paramount, CA
How exposed is Paramount to wildfire?
Paramount's 12,056 buildings earn a 33rd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Paramount at the 39th national percentile — 7 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 99.9% of Paramount's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 0.1% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 12,056 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Paramount ranks
Paramount ranks lower within California (3rd percentile statewide) than its 33rd national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Paramount ranks 21,167 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,295 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,517 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Paramount and the insurance market
Paramount 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 33rd-percentile score like Paramount's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
Hardening a home in Paramount
Paramount's 99.9% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where Paramount's figures come from
Paramount's 33rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Paramount's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.