Fountain Valley, CA
How exposed is Fountain Valley to wildfire?
Fountain Valley's 16,140 buildings earn a 54th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Fountain Valley's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 61st percentile nationally.
Fountain Valley's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 0.5% of Fountain Valley's 16,140 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 99.5% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 16,140 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Fountain Valley compares
Fountain Valley ranks lower within California (13th percentile statewide) than its 54th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Fountain Valley ranks 14,550 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 904 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,361 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Fountain Valley
Fountain Valley 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 54th-percentile score like Fountain Valley's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
What would actually reduce this score
Fountain Valley's 99.5% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Fountain Valley's 14,550-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Fountain Valley, see the exposure-zones guide.