Westley, CA
How exposed is Westley to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Westley lands at the 82nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 203 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Westley at the 82nd percentile, close to its 82nd-percentile risk score.
Where Westley's buildings actually sit
Indirect exposure is dominant in Westley (76.4% of 203 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 23.7% sit in the Direct zone.
How Westley compares
Westley's 82nd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 44th ranking inside California does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 38 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Westley ranks 5,540 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,718 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 881 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Westley and the insurance market
Westley's 82nd-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Westley (76.4% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Westley's 5,540-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Westley, see the exposure-zones guide.