Livermore, CA
Livermore, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Livermore at the 93rd national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 31,708 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 Livermore at the 94th percentile, close to its 93rd-percentile risk score.
Where Livermore's buildings actually sit
Most of Livermore's buildings (50.1%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone. At 31,708 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Livermore against the rest of the country
Livermore's 93rd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 67th ranking inside California does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 25 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Livermore ranks 2,354 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 351 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 511 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Livermore
Because Livermore 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 50.1% of Livermore'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 Livermore's figures come from
Livermore's 93rd-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 Livermore's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.