Twentynine Palms, CA
Twentynine Palms wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Twentynine Palms at the 56th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 9,474 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Twentynine Palms at the 58th percentile, close to its 56th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Indirect exposure is dominant in Twentynine Palms (38.9% of 9,474 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 30.2% sit in the Direct zone. At 9,474 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Twentynine Palms ranks
Inside California, Twentynine Palms sits at just the 15th percentile even though it scores 56th 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, Twentynine Palms ranks 13,826 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,721 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,340 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Twentynine Palms
Twentynine Palms's 56th-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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 38.9% of Twentynine Palms's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 9,474 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Twentynine Palms. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Twentynine Palms, see the exposure-zones guide.