Pinole, CA
Pinole, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Pinole's 6,508 buildings earn a 87th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Pinole at the 88th percentile, close to its 87th-percentile risk score.
Where Pinole's buildings actually sit
6,508 buildings are counted in Pinole, and 59.1% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 10.8% in Direct exposure or the 30.1% rated Minimal. At 6,508 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Pinole against the rest of the country
Inside California, Pinole sits at just the 54th percentile even though it scores 87th 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, Pinole ranks 4,244 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,668 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 730 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
Because Pinole 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
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Pinole (59.1% 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 Pinole's 4,244-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Pinole, see the exposure-zones guide.