West Point, CA
How exposed is West Point to wildfire?
USFS scores West Point at the 99th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 652 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks West Point at the 99th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
West Point's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in West Point: 92.8% of its 652 buildings, versus 7.2% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How West Point compares
There's little gap between West Point's 99th national percentile and its 93rd percentile inside California, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, West Point ranks 224 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,172 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 132 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
West Point and the insurance market
Because West Point 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.
Hardening a home in West Point
Because Direct exposure dominates in West Point (92.8%), 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 652 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for West Point. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond West Point, see the exposure-zones guide.