Bellflower, CA
How exposed is Bellflower to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Bellflower at the 22nd national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 20,744 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Bellflower at the 28th national percentile — 6 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Bellflower's buildings actually sit
Bellflower rates 99.9% Minimal exposure against just 0.1% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 20,744 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 20,744 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Bellflower ranks
Inside California, Bellflower sits at just the 2nd percentile even though it scores 22nd 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, Bellflower ranks 24,605 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 680 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,542 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Bellflower
Bellflower's 22nd-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 Bellflower
Bellflower's 99.9% 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 Bellflower's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 20,744 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Bellflower. The exposure-zones guide covers what Bellflower's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.