Los Olivos, CA
Los Olivos, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Los Olivos lands at the 89th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 891 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Los Olivos at the 91st percentile, close to its 89th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Los Olivos's 891 counted buildings, 69.7% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Los Olivos compares
Los Olivos's 89th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 59th ranking inside California does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 30 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Los Olivos ranks 3,395 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,798 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 640 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Los Olivos
Because Los Olivos 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 Direct exposure dominates in Los Olivos (69.7%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
Where Los Olivos's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Los Olivos's 3,395-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Los Olivos's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.