Brentwood, CA
Brentwood, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Brentwood at the 91st national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 22,213 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 Brentwood at the 92nd percentile, close to its 91st-percentile risk score.
Brentwood's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 5.8% of Brentwood's 22,213 buildings carry Direct exposure and 27.6% carry Indirect; the remaining 66.6% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 22,213 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Brentwood ranks
Brentwood's 91st national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 63rd ranking inside California does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 28 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Brentwood ranks 2,950 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 611 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 585 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Brentwood
Because Brentwood 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 66.6% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Brentwood gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Brentwood's figures come from
Brentwood's 91st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Brentwood's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.