Jones Valley, CA
How exposed is Jones Valley to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Jones Valley at the 96th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 752 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Jones Valley at the 97th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Jones Valley's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Jones Valley's 752 counted buildings, 78.2% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Jones Valley compares
Jones Valley's 96th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 78th ranking inside California does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 18 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Jones Valley ranks 1,125 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,097 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 348 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Jones Valley
Because Jones 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
Because Direct exposure dominates in Jones Valley (78.2%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
Where Jones Valley's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 752 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Jones Valley. The exposure-zones guide covers what Jones Valley's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.