Rohnert Park, CA
Rohnert Park wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Rohnert Park at the 86th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 12,512 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Rohnert Park's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 89th percentile nationally.
Rohnert Park's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 2.9% of Rohnert Park's 12,512 buildings carry Direct exposure and 28% carry Indirect; the remaining 69.2% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 12,512 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Rohnert Park compares
Inside California, Rohnert Park sits at just the 53rd percentile even though it scores 86th 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, Rohnert Park ranks 4,372 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,231 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 747 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 Rohnert Park 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
Rohnert Park's 69.2% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where Rohnert Park's figures come from
Rohnert Park's 86th-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 Rohnert Park's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.