Bellflower, IL
Bellflower wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Bellflower at the 0th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 300 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Bellflower at the 0th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Bellflower's buildings actually sit
Most of Bellflower's buildings (92.3% of 300) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
Where Bellflower ranks
There's little gap between Bellflower's 0th national percentile and its 2nd percentile inside Illinois, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bellflower ranks 31,445 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,625 by building count (1 is largest). Within Illinois alone, it ranks 1,405 of 1,445 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Illinois on its state page.
Bellflower and the insurance market
At the 0th national percentile, Bellflower rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 92.3% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Bellflower gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Bellflower's 31,445-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Bellflower, see the exposure-zones guide.