Alpine Village, CA
Alpine Village, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Alpine Village's 236 buildings earn a 98th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Alpine Village's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 98th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Alpine Village's 236 counted buildings, 97.9% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Alpine Village against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Alpine Village's 98th national percentile and its 83rd percentile inside California, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Alpine Village ranks 619 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,584 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 255 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
Alpine Village 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 98th-percentile score like Alpine Village's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
Hardening a home in Alpine Village
Alpine Village's 97.9% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
Where Alpine Village's figures come from
Alpine Village's 98th-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 Alpine Village's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.