Davenport, CA
Davenport, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Davenport at the 83rd national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 251 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 Davenport at the 85th percentile, close to its 83rd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 59% of Davenport's 251 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 41% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where Davenport ranks
Davenport's 83rd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 46th ranking inside California does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 38 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Davenport ranks 5,221 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,096 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 851 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Davenport 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 83rd-percentile score like Davenport's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 59% of Davenport'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.
Where Davenport's figures come from
Davenport's 83rd-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 Davenport's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.