Valinda, CA
Valinda, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Valinda at the 70th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 6,144 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Valinda's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 73rd percentile nationally.
Where Valinda's buildings actually sit
Most of Valinda's buildings (99.4% of 6,144) 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. At 6,144 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Valinda ranks
Valinda ranks lower within California (28th percentile statewide) than its 70th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Valinda ranks 9,414 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,820 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,136 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Valinda and the insurance market
Because Valinda 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Valinda's 99.4% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Valinda's 9,414-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Valinda, see the exposure-zones guide.