Woodland, CA
Woodland, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Woodland at the 63rd national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 18,499 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Woodland at the 62nd percentile, close to its 63rd-percentile risk score.
Where Woodland's buildings actually sit
Only 1.9% of Woodland's 18,499 buildings carry Direct exposure and 20.2% carry Indirect; the remaining 77.9% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 18,499 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Woodland against the rest of the country
Woodland's 63rd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 22nd ranking inside California does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 42 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Woodland ranks 11,560 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 773 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,234 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Woodland and the insurance market
Woodland 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 63rd-percentile score like Woodland's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
What would actually reduce this score
Woodland's 77.9% 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 Woodland's figures come from
Woodland's 63rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Woodland's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.