Desert Shores, CA
Desert Shores, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Desert Shores's 413 buildings earn a 28th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Desert Shores at the 35th percentile, close to its 28th-percentile risk score.
Where Desert Shores's buildings actually sit
Only 2.9% of Desert Shores's 413 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 97.1% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Desert Shores against the rest of the country
Inside California, Desert Shores sits at just the 2nd percentile even though it scores 28th 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, Desert Shores ranks 22,839 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,963 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,532 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Desert Shores
Because Desert Shores 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
Even with 97.1% of Desert Shores outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 413 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Desert Shores. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Desert Shores, see the exposure-zones guide.