Suisun City, CA
Suisun City wildfire risk explained
Suisun City's 9,064 buildings earn a 82nd-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 Suisun City at the 82nd percentile, close to its 82nd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 97.1% of Suisun City's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 1.3% Direct and 1.6% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 9,064 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Suisun City ranks
Suisun City ranks lower within California (43rd percentile statewide) than its 82nd national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Suisun City ranks 5,665 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,828 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 890 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 Suisun City 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Suisun City's 97.1% 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 Suisun City's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Suisun City's 5,665-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Suisun City's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.