Soulsbyville, CA
How exposed is Soulsbyville to wildfire?
USFS scores Soulsbyville at the 98th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 1,188 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Soulsbyville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 97th percentile nationally.
Soulsbyville's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Soulsbyville: 71.2% of its 1,188 buildings, versus 28.8% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Soulsbyville ranks
There's little gap between Soulsbyville's 98th national percentile and its 84th percentile inside California, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Soulsbyville ranks 628 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,714 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 264 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Soulsbyville
Because Soulsbyville 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Soulsbyville's 71.2% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
Where Soulsbyville's figures come from
Soulsbyville's 98th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Soulsbyville's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.