Yountville, CA
Yountville wildfire risk explained
Yountville's 1,455 buildings earn a 84th-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.)
Separately from the risk score above, Yountville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 82nd percentile nationally.
Yountville's building exposure, zone by zone
Indirect exposure is dominant in Yountville (93.1% of 1,455 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 6.9% sit in the Direct zone.
Yountville against the rest of the country
Yountville ranks lower within California (48th percentile statewide) than its 84th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Yountville ranks 4,910 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,372 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 811 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Yountville and the insurance market
Because Yountville 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.
Hardening a home in Yountville
Because 93.1% of Yountville's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Yountville's 84th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Yountville, see the exposure-zones guide.