Yucca Valley, CA
Yucca Valley, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Yucca Valley at the 84th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 11,456 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Yucca Valley at the 80th national percentile — 4 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Yucca Valley's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 52.8% of Yucca Valley's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 39% Indirect share and far above its 8.2% Minimal share — a profile where 6,052 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most. At 11,456 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Yucca Valley ranks
Inside California, Yucca Valley sits at just the 47th percentile even though it scores 84th 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, Yucca Valley ranks 5,035 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,376 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 827 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Yucca Valley and the insurance market
Yucca Valley 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 Yucca Valley's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
What would actually reduce this score
With 52.8% of Yucca Valley 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 11,456 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Yucca Valley. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Yucca Valley, see the exposure-zones guide.