Vincent, CA
How exposed is Vincent to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Vincent at the 56th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 5,035 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Vincent at the 60th percentile, close to its 56th-percentile risk score.
Where Vincent's buildings actually sit
Only 0.2% of Vincent's 5,035 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 99.8% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 5,035 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Vincent against the rest of the country
Inside California, Vincent sits at just the 15th percentile even though it scores 56th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Vincent ranks 13,731 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,409 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,335 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Vincent 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 56th-percentile score like Vincent's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
What would actually reduce this score
With 99.8% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Vincent gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Vincent's 13,731-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Vincent, see the exposure-zones guide.