French Valley, CA
French Valley, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
French Valley's 9,661 buildings earn a 90th-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.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks French Valley at the 92nd national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
French Valley's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of French Valley's buildings (64%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone. At 9,661 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where French Valley ranks
French Valley's 90th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 62nd ranking inside California does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 28 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, French Valley ranks 3,045 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,693 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 594 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in French Valley
Because French Valley 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
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in French Valley (64% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
Where French Valley's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind French Valley's 3,045-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what French Valley's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.