Scoring vendors · Verisk

Your letter names FireLine? It runs 0 to 30, and it reads three things.

FireLine is Verisk’s property-level wildfire hazard score, offered across thirteen western states including Texas. It rates fuel, slope, and access, flags exposure to wind-borne embers, and hands your carrier a number that the carrier alone decides how to act on.

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

What FireLine measures

FireLine0 negligible to 30 extreme

Per Verisk's public materials at verisk.com/products/fireline.

Fuel The grass, brush, and trees around the property that would feed a fire.
Slope Steeper terrain speeds and intensifies fire, which moves faster uphill.
Access One-lane and dead-end roads that slow fire equipment getting in.
Plus embers FireLine separately flags properties in Special Hazard Interface Areas, exposed to wind-borne embers, and Verisk describes wind and mitigation analytics layered alongside the core factors.

The distribution nobody mentions in the letter

Verisk executives have said publicly that roughly three quarters of scored properties come in at 0 or 1, about an eighth at 2 or 3, and the rest, roughly 15 percent, from 4 up to 30. More useful still: each carrier sets its own cutoff, and Verisk has described some carriers declining at 6 and above, others at 8, others at 10. The consumer group United Policyholders collected these figures in a plain-language explainer.

Sit with what that means: the identical score that dropped you at one carrier is written every day at another. There may be no fact more useful to a dropped homeowner, because it converts the score from a verdict into one company's appetite. It is the whole case for door two, shopping the market through an independent agent with documentation in hand.

What FireLine does not see

A hazard score built on fuel, slope, and access does not see your receipts, your vent retrofits, or clearing work done since its data was last refreshed. Slope never changes; fuel does, every time you cut it. If your work postdates the data behind the score, you are living the problem covered on the stale imagery page.

What to do if your letter cites it

Colorado: request the plain-language explanation HB25-1182 requires and appeal with evidence of your mitigation work, 10 days to acknowledge, 30 to decide. California: disclosure and appeal, in force since October 2022. Texas, where FireLine is offered: HB 2067 puts the reason in writing automatically, and with no appeal right there, the play is the next carrier, not 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 CoreLogic / Cotality.

Where a sealed record fits

Fuel is the FireLine factor you control, and fuel conditions are photographable: what stands 0 to 5 feet from the structure, what the 5 to 30 foot band looks like after thinning. Sealed Home Record turns an hour of walking the property into a sealed, tamper-evident, date-verified record of exactly that, with a certificate and a permanent verification link. It does not stop or reverse a nonrenewal, and it does not decide an appeal.

One carrier’s cutoff is not every carrier’s. Walk in with evidence.

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

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