Dixon, CA
How exposed is Dixon to wildfire?
Dixon sits at the 76th 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 6,574 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 Dixon at the 75th percentile, close to its 76th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Dixon rates 97.7% Minimal exposure against just 2.3% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 6,574 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 6,574 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Dixon compares
Dixon ranks lower within California (35th percentile statewide) than its 76th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Dixon ranks 7,493 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,640 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,020 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
Dixon 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 76th-percentile score like Dixon's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 97.7% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Dixon gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 6,574 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Dixon. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Dixon, see the exposure-zones guide.