Pittsburg, CA
How exposed is Pittsburg to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Pittsburg lands at the 90th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 21,356 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Pittsburg's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 91st percentile nationally.
Pittsburg's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 68.6% of Pittsburg's 21,356 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 2.6% Direct and 28.9% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to. At 21,356 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Pittsburg compares
Pittsburg ranks lower within California (61st percentile statewide) than its 90th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pittsburg ranks 3,141 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 652 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 605 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Pittsburg and the insurance market
Pittsburg 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 90th-percentile score like Pittsburg's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 68.6% of Pittsburg'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 Pittsburg's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 21,356 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Pittsburg. The exposure-zones guide covers what Pittsburg's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.