Reliez Valley, CA
Reliez Valley, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Reliez Valley's 1,361 buildings earn a 90th-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.)
Separately from the risk score above, Reliez Valley's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 91st percentile nationally.
Reliez Valley's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Reliez Valley's 1,361 counted buildings, 47.8% carry Direct exposure and only 4.5% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Reliez Valley against the rest of the country
Inside California, Reliez Valley sits at just the 61st percentile even though it scores 90th 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, Reliez Valley ranks 3,178 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,777 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 610 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
Reliez Valley 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 90th-percentile score like Reliez Valley's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
Hardening a home in Reliez Valley
With 47.8% of Reliez Valley in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Reliez Valley's 3,178-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Reliez Valley, see the exposure-zones guide.