Piñon Hills, CA
Piñon Hills, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Piñon Hills sits at the 95th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 4,682 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Piñon Hills at the 93rd national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Piñon Hills's buildings actually sit
4,682 buildings are counted in Piñon Hills, and 82% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 16.3% rated Minimal.
Piñon Hills against the rest of the country
Inside California, Piñon Hills sits at just the 75th percentile even though it scores 95th 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, Piñon Hills ranks 1,473 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,634 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 398 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Piñon Hills and the insurance market
Piñon Hills's 95th-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.
Hardening a home in Piñon Hills
Piñon Hills's 82% 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.
Where Piñon Hills's figures come from
Piñon Hills's 95th-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 Piñon Hills's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.