San Leandro, CA
San Leandro, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
San Leandro sits at the 61st percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 28,516 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, San Leandro's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 63rd percentile nationally.
Where San Leandro's buildings actually sit
52.4% of San Leandro's 28,516 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 0.5% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 28,516 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where San Leandro ranks
Inside California, San Leandro sits at just the 19th percentile even though it scores 61st 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, San Leandro ranks 12,408 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 418 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,274 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
San Leandro and the insurance market
San Leandro 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 61st-percentile score like San Leandro's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
Hardening a home in San Leandro
San Leandro's 52.4% 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.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 28,516 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for San Leandro. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond San Leandro, see the exposure-zones guide.