Fetters Hot Springs-Agua Caliente, CA
How exposed is Fetters Hot Springs-Agua Caliente to wildfire?
Fetters Hot Springs-Agua Caliente's 1,585 buildings earn a 81st-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 Fetters Hot Springs-Agua Caliente at the 81st percentile, close to its 81st-percentile risk score.
Where Fetters Hot Springs-Agua Caliente's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 78.8% of Fetters Hot Springs-Agua Caliente's 1,585 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 21.2% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where Fetters Hot Springs-Agua Caliente ranks
Inside California, Fetters Hot Springs-Agua Caliente sits at just the 41st percentile even though it scores 81st 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, Fetters Hot Springs-Agua Caliente ranks 6,136 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,811 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 925 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Fetters Hot Springs-Agua Caliente
Because Fetters Hot Springs-Agua Caliente 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.
Hardening a home in Fetters Hot Springs-Agua Caliente
Because 78.8% of Fetters Hot Springs-Agua Caliente's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,585 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Fetters Hot Springs-Agua Caliente. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Fetters Hot Springs-Agua Caliente, see the exposure-zones guide.