Rouse, CA
Rouse, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Rouse at the 72nd national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 721 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Rouse at the 73rd percentile, close to its 72nd-percentile risk score.
Where Rouse's buildings actually sit
Rouse rates 85.4% Minimal exposure against just 14.6% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 721 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Rouse compares
Rouse's 72nd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 30th ranking inside California does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 42 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Rouse ranks 8,875 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,433 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,102 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
Rouse 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 72nd-percentile score like Rouse's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
What would actually reduce this score
With 85.4% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Rouse gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Rouse's 8,875-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Rouse, see the exposure-zones guide.