Pine Valley, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Pine Valley at the 100th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 969 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 Pine Valley at the 100th percentile, close to its 100th-percentile risk score.
Pine Valley's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Pine Valley's 969 counted buildings, 81.4% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Pine Valley ranks
There's little gap between Pine Valley's 100th national percentile and its 100th percentile inside California, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pine Valley ranks 8 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,158 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 8 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Pine Valley
Because Pine Valley 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.
Hardening a home in Pine Valley
Because Direct exposure dominates in Pine Valley (81.4%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Pine Valley's 8-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Pine Valley, see the exposure-zones guide.