Fall River Mills, CA
Fall River Mills, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Fall River Mills at the 80th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 485 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Fall River Mills at the 82nd national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Fall River Mills's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 58.4% of Fall River Mills's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 41.7% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 283 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Fall River Mills against the rest of the country
Inside California, Fall River Mills sits at just the 41st percentile even though it scores 80th 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, Fall River Mills ranks 6,167 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,606 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 928 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Fall River Mills
Because Fall River Mills 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
Fall River Mills's 58.4% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
Where Fall River Mills's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 485 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Fall River Mills. The exposure-zones guide covers what Fall River Mills's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.