Pico Rivera, CA
How exposed is Pico Rivera to wildfire?
Pico Rivera sits at the 65th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 19,594 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Pico Rivera's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 66th percentile nationally.
Pico Rivera's building exposure, zone by zone
Pico Rivera rates 98.1% Minimal exposure against just 0.4% Direct and 1.5% Indirect — of 19,594 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 19,594 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Pico Rivera against the rest of the country
Pico Rivera's 65th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 23rd ranking inside California does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 42 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pico Rivera ranks 10,957 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 726 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,205 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Pico Rivera
Pico Rivera's 65th-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 Pico Rivera
Even with 98.1% of Pico Rivera outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Pico Rivera's 10,957-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Pico Rivera, see the exposure-zones guide.