Calistoga, CA
Calistoga, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Calistoga at the 82nd national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 2,584 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Calistoga's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 81st percentile nationally.
Calistoga's building exposure, zone by zone
79.8% of Calistoga's 2,584 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 20.2% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
How Calistoga compares
Inside California, Calistoga sits at just the 43rd percentile even though it scores 82nd 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, Calistoga ranks 5,762 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,129 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 894 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Calistoga
Calistoga 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 82nd-percentile score like Calistoga's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Calistoga (79.8% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Calistoga's 5,762-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Calistoga, see the exposure-zones guide.