Lakeview, CA
Lakeview, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Lakeview sits at the 95th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 1,119 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Lakeview at the 96th percentile, close to its 95th-percentile risk score.
Where Lakeview's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Lakeview: 82.3% of its 1,119 buildings, versus 17.7% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Lakeview compares
Inside California, Lakeview sits at just the 73rd percentile even though it scores 95th 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, Lakeview ranks 1,694 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,157 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 428 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Lakeview and the insurance market
Lakeview 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 95th-percentile score like Lakeview's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Lakeview's 82.3% 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 Lakeview's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,119 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Lakeview. The exposure-zones guide covers what Lakeview's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.