Pomona, CA
Pomona wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Pomona at the 86th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 41,338 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Pomona's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 85th percentile nationally.
Where Pomona's buildings actually sit
91.5% of Pomona's 41,338 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 2.1% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 41,338 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Pomona ranks
Pomona's 86th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 52nd ranking inside California does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 34 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pomona ranks 4,434 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 230 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 754 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Pomona
Pomona's 86th-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 Pomona
Pomona's 91.5% 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 Pomona's 4,434-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Pomona, see the exposure-zones guide.