West Covina, CA
West Covina, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores West Covina at the 70th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 31,498 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, West Covina's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 70th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 1.5% of West Covina's 31,498 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 98.5% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 31,498 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How West Covina compares
West Covina ranks lower within California (28th percentile statewide) than its 70th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, West Covina ranks 9,449 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 355 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,140 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in West Covina
West Covina 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 70th-percentile score like West Covina's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
What would actually reduce this score
With 98.5% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, West Covina gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
West Covina's 70th-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 West Covina, see the exposure-zones guide.