Lowest counties for wildfire risk in the United States

Top 25 of 3144 counties with data.

Ranked by wildfire risk (FEMA National Risk Index, FEMA NRI v1.20), lowest first.

Lowest counties for wildfire risk in the United States
Rank	County	Value
1	Aleutians West	0.0
2	Bronx	1.2
3	Kings	1.2
4	New York	1.4
5	Queens	2.2
6	Hudson	3.4
7	Philadelphia	5.3
8	Orleans	6.5
9	Suffolk	7.0
10	Cook	7.9
11	Essex	9.1
12	St. Louis	10.2
13	San Francisco	10.8
14	Jefferson	11.4
15	Charlottesville	11.5
16	Passaic	12.4
17	Richmond	14.2
18	Nassau	14.3
19	Union	17.2
20	District of Columbia	17.5
21	Bergen	17.6
22	DuPage	18.1
23	Los Angeles	19.7
24	Rockland	19.9
25	Milwaukee	20.8

How this ranking works

This page ranks every US county by wildfire risk, sorted so the lowest places appear first. Click any county to see its housing, schools, crime, and demographics in detail.

For wildfire risk, a lower value is generally more favorable, so the top of the list is the lowest. Want to weigh wildfire risk against schools, taxes, commute, and more at once? Use the live map to build a custom match.

Data comes from public sources. Source attribution and the exact data vintage are shown above and on the full map of wildfire risk.

Counties With the Lowest Wildfire Risk, state by state

The same ranking, scoped to a single state.

Counties With the Lowest Wildfire Risk in the United States (2026)

Lowest counties for wildfire risk in the United States

How this ranking works

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