Clearlake Riviera, CA
How exposed is Clearlake Riviera to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Clearlake Riviera at the 100th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 1,687 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Clearlake Riviera's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 100th percentile nationally.
Where Clearlake Riviera's buildings actually sit
1,687 buildings are counted in Clearlake Riviera, and 65% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0.1% rated Minimal.
Clearlake Riviera against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Clearlake Riviera's 100th national percentile and its 95th percentile inside California, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Clearlake Riviera ranks 119 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,468 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 76 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Clearlake Riviera and the insurance market
Because Clearlake Riviera 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
Because Direct exposure dominates in Clearlake Riviera (65%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Clearlake Riviera's 100th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Clearlake Riviera, see the exposure-zones guide.