Westwood, CA
How exposed is Westwood to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Westwood at the 94th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 1,348 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Westwood at the 92nd percentile, close to its 94th-percentile risk score.
Where Westwood's buildings actually sit
Most of Westwood's buildings (88.4%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Where Westwood ranks
Inside California, Westwood sits at just the 71st percentile even though it scores 94th 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, Westwood ranks 1,911 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,839 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 458 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Westwood
Westwood 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 94th-percentile score like Westwood's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Westwood's 88.4% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
Where Westwood's figures come from
Westwood's 94th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Westwood's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.