Mountain View (Santa Clara), CA
Mountain View (Santa Clara), CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Mountain View (Santa Clara)'s 19,670 buildings earn a 36th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (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 (Santa Clara) at the 39th percentile, close to its 36th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Mountain View (Santa Clara) rates 98.9% Minimal exposure against just 1.1% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 19,670 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 19,670 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Mountain View (Santa Clara) against the rest of the country
Inside California, Mountain View (Santa Clara) sits at just the 4th percentile even though it scores 36th 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 (Santa Clara) ranks 20,222 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 723 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,506 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 (Santa Clara)
Mountain View (Santa Clara) 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 36th-percentile score like Mountain View (Santa Clara)'s can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
Hardening a home in Mountain View (Santa Clara)
Even with 98.9% of Mountain View (Santa Clara) outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Mountain View (Santa Clara)'s 20,222-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Mountain View (Santa Clara), see the exposure-zones guide.