West Goshen, CA
West Goshen wildfire risk explained
USFS scores West Goshen at the 67th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 312 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, West Goshen's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 67th percentile nationally.
West Goshen's building exposure, zone by zone
Of West Goshen's 312 counted buildings, 86.2% carry Direct exposure and only 13.1% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where West Goshen ranks
Inside California, West Goshen sits at just the 24th percentile even though it scores 67th 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, West Goshen ranks 10,389 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,310 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,189 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
West Goshen and the insurance market
West Goshen 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 67th-percentile score like West Goshen's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
Hardening a home in West Goshen
Because Direct exposure dominates in West Goshen (86.2%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
West Goshen's 67th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond West Goshen, see the exposure-zones guide.