West Hollywood, CA
West Hollywood, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts West Hollywood at the 76th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 5,620 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks West Hollywood at the 71st national percentile — 5 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
West Hollywood's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 0.1% of West Hollywood's 5,620 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 99.9% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 5,620 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where West Hollywood ranks
West Hollywood's 76th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 34th ranking inside California does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 42 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, West Hollywood ranks 7,651 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,074 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,039 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
West Hollywood and the insurance market
Because West Hollywood is in California, a wildfire-hazard disclosure is legally required before a sale closes here — unusual nationally, since only these two states mandate it. The state's FAIR Plan alone carried 668,609 policies by the end of 2025. Full detail in the disclosure-law guide.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
West Hollywood's 99.9% 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.
Where West Hollywood's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 5,620 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for West Hollywood. The exposure-zones guide covers what West Hollywood's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.