Brisbane, CA
Brisbane, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Brisbane sits at the 63rd percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 1,732 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Brisbane at the 62nd percentile, close to its 63rd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Indirect exposure is dominant in Brisbane (93.6% of 1,732 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 4% sit in the Direct zone.
How Brisbane compares
Brisbane's 63rd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 21st ranking inside California does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 42 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Brisbane ranks 11,589 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,294 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,235 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Brisbane and the insurance market
Because Brisbane 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
Because 93.6% of Brisbane'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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Brisbane's 11,589-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Brisbane, see the exposure-zones guide.