Mountain View (Contra Costa), CA
How exposed is Mountain View (Contra Costa) to wildfire?
USFS scores Mountain View (Contra Costa) at the 84th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 1,091 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Mountain View (Contra Costa) at the 85th percentile, close to its 84th-percentile risk score.
Mountain View (Contra Costa)'s building exposure, zone by zone
Mountain View (Contra Costa) rates 52.6% Minimal exposure against just 0.3% Direct and 47.1% Indirect — of 1,091 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Mountain View (Contra Costa) ranks
Inside California, Mountain View (Contra Costa) sits at just the 46th percentile even though it scores 84th 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, Mountain View (Contra Costa) ranks 5,131 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,333 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 842 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Mountain View (Contra Costa)
Because Mountain View (Contra Costa) 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 52.6% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Mountain View (Contra Costa) gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Mountain View (Contra Costa)'s figures come from
Mountain View (Contra Costa)'s 84th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Mountain View (Contra Costa)'s dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.