West Puente Valley, CA
West Puente Valley, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts West Puente Valley at the 42nd national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 5,546 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks West Puente Valley at the 44th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 0.8% of West Puente Valley's 5,546 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 99.2% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 5,546 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 Puente Valley compares
West Puente Valley's 42nd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 6th ranking inside California does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 36 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, West Puente Valley ranks 18,299 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,108 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,471 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in West Puente Valley
West Puente Valley's 42nd-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
West Puente Valley's 99.2% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind West Puente Valley's 18,299-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond West Puente Valley, see the exposure-zones guide.