Desert View Highlands, CA
How exposed is Desert View Highlands to wildfire?
Desert View Highlands sits at the 81st percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 986 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Desert View Highlands's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 77th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Desert View Highlands's buildings (91.6%) 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 Desert View Highlands ranks
Desert View Highlands ranks lower within California (41st percentile statewide) than its 81st national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Desert View Highlands ranks 6,135 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,032 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 924 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
Desert View Highlands's 81st-percentile score lands in California, the only two states requiring a wildfire disclosure at sale. California's surplus-lines homeowners market passed 300,000 policies for the first time in 2025, driven by carriers pulling back from wildfire-exposed areas statewide. The disclosure-law guide covers what it requires.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Desert View Highlands (91.6% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
Where Desert View Highlands's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Desert View Highlands's 6,135-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Desert View Highlands's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.