Pixley, CA
Pixley wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Pixley lands at the 76th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 1,298 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Pixley at the 77th percentile, close to its 76th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 32.1% of Pixley's 1,298 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 67.9% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Pixley ranks
Pixley's 76th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 35th ranking inside California does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 41 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pixley ranks 7,525 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,079 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,024 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Pixley
Pixley 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 76th-percentile score like Pixley's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 67.9% of Pixley 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
Pixley's 76th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Pixley, see the exposure-zones guide.