Vandenberg Village, CA
Vandenberg Village, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Vandenberg Village at the 93rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 2,668 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Vandenberg Village at the 92nd percentile, close to its 93rd-percentile risk score.
Vandenberg Village's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 80.4% of Vandenberg Village's 2,668 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 19.6% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where Vandenberg Village ranks
Inside California, Vandenberg Village sits at just the 69th percentile even though it scores 93rd 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, Vandenberg Village ranks 2,133 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,983 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 488 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
Vandenberg Village 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 93rd-percentile score like Vandenberg Village's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
Hardening a home in Vandenberg Village
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Vandenberg Village (80.4% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 2,668 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Vandenberg Village. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Vandenberg Village, see the exposure-zones guide.