Beverly Hills, CA
How exposed is Beverly Hills to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Beverly Hills lands at the 87th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 11,567 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Beverly Hills at the 84th national percentile — 3 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Beverly Hills's buildings actually sit
98.1% of Beverly Hills's 11,567 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 1.9% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 11,567 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Beverly Hills ranks
Inside California, Beverly Hills sits at just the 54th percentile even though it scores 87th 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, Beverly Hills ranks 4,242 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,358 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 728 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Beverly Hills
Because Beverly Hills is in California, a wildfire-hazard disclosure is legally required before a sale closes here — unusual nationally, since only these two states mandate it. The state's FAIR Plan alone carried 668,609 policies by the end of 2025. Full detail in the disclosure-law guide.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 98.1% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Beverly Hills gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Beverly Hills's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Beverly Hills's 4,242-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Beverly Hills's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.