Valley Acres, CA
How exposed is Valley Acres to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Valley Acres at the 84th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 417 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Valley Acres's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 85th percentile nationally.
Valley Acres's building exposure, zone by zone
417 buildings are counted in Valley Acres, and 53% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
How Valley Acres compares
Valley Acres's 84th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 49th ranking inside California does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 36 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Valley Acres ranks 4,909 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,871 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 810 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Valley Acres
Valley Acres 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 84th-percentile score like Valley Acres's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 53% of Valley Acres in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 417 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Valley Acres. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Valley Acres, see the exposure-zones guide.