El Sobrante (Riverside), CA
El Sobrante (Riverside) wildfire risk explained
El Sobrante (Riverside)'s 4,477 buildings earn a 88th-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.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts El Sobrante (Riverside) at the 90th percentile, close to its 88th-percentile risk score.
El Sobrante (Riverside)'s building exposure, zone by zone
58.4% of El Sobrante (Riverside)'s 4,477 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 17.9% Direct and 23.7% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
How El Sobrante (Riverside) compares
Inside California, El Sobrante (Riverside) sits at just the 58th percentile even though it scores 88th 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, El Sobrante (Riverside) ranks 3,679 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,811 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 666 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in El Sobrante (Riverside)
El Sobrante (Riverside) 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 88th-percentile score like El Sobrante (Riverside)'s can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
What would actually reduce this score
El Sobrante (Riverside)'s 58.4% 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 El Sobrante (Riverside)'s 3,679-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond El Sobrante (Riverside), see the exposure-zones guide.