Fairview, CA
How exposed is Fairview to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Fairview lands at the 91st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 4,066 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Fairview at the 92nd national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Fairview's buildings actually sit
Fairview rates 43% Minimal exposure against just 20% Direct and 37% Indirect — of 4,066 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Fairview ranks
Fairview's 91st national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 64th ranking inside California does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 27 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Fairview ranks 2,855 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,174 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 571 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
Fairview 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 91st-percentile score like Fairview's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
Hardening a home in Fairview
Even with 43% of Fairview 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.
Where Fairview's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 4,066 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Fairview. The exposure-zones guide covers what Fairview's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.