Scoring vendors · CoreLogic / Cotality

Your letter says CoreLogic? The company is now Cotality.

The CoreLogic Wildfire Risk Score is now sold by Cotality, the name CoreLogic took after a 2025 rebrand. Older letters and reports may carry either name; it is the same score. It runs on a scale up to 100, and carriers increasingly pair it with a second score your own work cannot move.

Last reviewed September 2, 2026 · Part of the nonrenewal guide

What the score measures

Wildfire Risk ScoreProperty-level score

Per the vendor's public materials at cotality.com.

The factors The company describes a composite score, published as a 5 to 100 scale, built from slope, aspect (which way the terrain faces), fuel and surface composition, drought and wind conditions, proximity to ember-generating high-risk areas, and recent wildfire events.
The bands, as publicly reported A CoreLogic hazard scientist has described the working bands in press interviews: scores up to about 50 read as low risk, the 50s as moderate, 60 to 80 as high, and above 80 as extreme. Every carrier draws its own line inside those bands.
In California Cotality petitioned the Department of Insurance in November 2025 to clear its U.S. Wildfire Model for streamlined use in rate filings, noting its wildfire score models had already been in approved use in the state for years. The petition is public on the Department's site.

The conflagration layer

Cotality also sells a separate Wildfire Conflagration Score, rating the risk that fire spreads structure to structure from the homes around yours. Nothing you do on your own parcel changes it. That sounds like bad news, and partly is, but it sharpens what matters: the property-level score is the part of your file your work can actually move, which makes documentation of that work count for more, not less.

What to do if your letter cites it

In Colorado, HB25-1182 entitles you to a plain-language explanation of the score and a formal appeal with evidence of your mitigation work, on a 10-day acknowledgment and 30-day decision clock. In California, score disclosure and appeal have been required since October 2022. In Texas, HB 2067 delivers the written reason automatically but no appeal exists; the score report is intelligence for the next carrier, not an argument with the last one. State by state: the tracker. The letter itself: how to read it.

Other vendors your letter might name: ZestyAI Z-FIRE and Verisk FireLine.

Where a sealed record fits

The factors on your side of the score, the fuel and surface conditions near the structure, are photographable facts. Sealed Home Record turns an hour of walking the property into a sealed, tamper-evident, date-verified record of them, with a certificate and a permanent verification link. It does not stop or reverse a nonrenewal, and it does not decide an appeal. It puts a dated record in the file where before there was only the model's word.

The score has a date behind it. Put a newer one in the file.

$69 a year. One property, unlimited sealed captures.

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