Rolling Hills Estates, CA
Rolling Hills Estates, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Rolling Hills Estates sits at the 62nd percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 3,727 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Rolling Hills Estates at the 63rd percentile, close to its 62nd-percentile risk score.
Rolling Hills Estates's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Rolling Hills Estates's buildings (68.5% of 3,727) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
Where Rolling Hills Estates ranks
Inside California, Rolling Hills Estates sits at just the 20th percentile even though it scores 62nd 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, Rolling Hills Estates ranks 11,996 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,495 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,259 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Rolling Hills Estates
Rolling Hills Estates's 62nd-percentile score lands in California, the only two states requiring a wildfire disclosure at sale. California's surplus-lines homeowners market passed 300,000 policies for the first time in 2025, driven by carriers pulling back from wildfire-exposed areas statewide. The disclosure-law guide covers what it requires.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 68.5% of Rolling Hills Estates 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
Rolling Hills Estates's 62nd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Rolling Hills Estates, see the exposure-zones guide.