West Sacramento, CA
How exposed is West Sacramento to wildfire?
West Sacramento's 18,705 buildings earn a 74th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, West Sacramento's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 72nd percentile nationally.
West Sacramento's building exposure, zone by zone
77.3% of West Sacramento's 18,705 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 5.2% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 18,705 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How West Sacramento compares
Inside California, West Sacramento sits at just the 31st percentile even though it scores 74th 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, West Sacramento ranks 8,344 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 761 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,082 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 West Sacramento 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
Even with 77.3% of West Sacramento outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
Where West Sacramento's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind West Sacramento's 8,344-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what West Sacramento's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.