Mountain View, HI
How exposed is Mountain View to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Mountain View lands at the 89th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 2,310 buildings, not the land around them. (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 at the 86th percentile, close to its 89th-percentile risk score.
Mountain View's building exposure, zone by zone
2,310 buildings are counted in Mountain View, and 81.2% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Mountain View against the rest of the country
Mountain View's 89th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 41st ranking inside Hawaii does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 49 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mountain View ranks 3,400 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,675 by building count (1 is largest). Within Hawaii alone, it ranks 97 of 163 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Hawaii on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Mountain View
Mountain View's very high rating (89th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Hardening a home in Mountain View
Mountain View's 81.2% 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 Mountain View's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 2,310 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Mountain View. The exposure-zones guide covers what Mountain View's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.