Wrightwood, CA
Wrightwood wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Wrightwood at the 100th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 2,559 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Wrightwood's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 99th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
56.7% of Wrightwood's 2,559 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 43.3% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Wrightwood against the rest of the country
Wrightwood scores 100th nationally and 95th within California — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wrightwood ranks 133 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,181 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 90 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Because Wrightwood 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Wrightwood's 56.7% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Wrightwood's 133-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Wrightwood, see the exposure-zones guide.