Temescal Valley, CA
Temescal Valley, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Temescal Valley's 8,991 buildings earn a 98th-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.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Temescal Valley at the 98th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Temescal Valley's buildings actually sit
Most of Temescal Valley's buildings (89.4%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone. At 8,991 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Temescal Valley compares
Temescal Valley's risk sits at a similar level relative to California (86th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (98th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Temescal Valley ranks 500 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,847 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 229 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Temescal Valley
Temescal Valley's 98th-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.
Hardening a home in Temescal Valley
Temescal Valley's 89.4% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
Where Temescal Valley's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 8,991 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Temescal Valley. The exposure-zones guide covers what Temescal Valley's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.