Parkway, CA
How exposed is Parkway to wildfire?
Parkway sits at the 51st percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 4,087 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Parkway at the 55th national percentile — 4 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 99.1% of Parkway's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 0.9% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Parkway ranks
Parkway ranks lower within California (11th percentile statewide) than its 51st national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Parkway ranks 15,529 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,153 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,400 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Parkway 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 51st-percentile score like Parkway's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Parkway's 99.1% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Parkway's 15,529-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Parkway, see the exposure-zones guide.