Nice, CA
How exposed is Nice to wildfire?
Nice's 1,760 buildings earn a 99th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Nice at the 98th percentile, close to its 99th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
1,760 buildings are counted in Nice, and 69.5% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 23.4% in Direct exposure or the 7.1% rated Minimal.
How Nice compares
There's little gap between Nice's 99th national percentile and its 88th percentile inside California, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Nice ranks 371 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,190 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 182 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Nice 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 99th-percentile score like Nice's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 69.5% of Nice's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where Nice's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Nice's 371-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Nice's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.