Westlake Village, CA
How exposed is Westlake Village to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Westlake Village lands at the 85th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 3,105 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Westlake Village at the 81st national percentile — 4 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Westlake Village's buildings (78%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Where Westlake Village ranks
Inside California, Westlake Village sits at just the 50th percentile even though it scores 85th 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, Westlake Village ranks 4,721 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,283 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 790 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Westlake Village and the insurance market
Westlake Village's 85th-percentile score lands in California, the only two states requiring a wildfire disclosure at sale. California's surplus-lines homeowners market passed 300,000 policies for the first time in 2025, driven by carriers pulling back from wildfire-exposed areas statewide. The disclosure-law guide covers what it requires.
Hardening a home in Westlake Village
Westlake Village's 78% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
Where Westlake Village's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Westlake Village's 4,721-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Westlake Village's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.