Valley Springs, CA
Valley Springs, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Valley Springs at the 94th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 440 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Valley Springs's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 95th percentile nationally.
Valley Springs's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 79.1% of Valley Springs's 440 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 20.9% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where Valley Springs ranks
Valley Springs ranks lower within California (72nd percentile statewide) than its 94th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Valley Springs ranks 1,819 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,450 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 445 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Valley Springs
Valley Springs's 94th-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.
What would actually reduce this score
Valley Springs's 79.1% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Valley Springs's 1,819-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Valley Springs, see the exposure-zones guide.