Bonita, CA
Bonita wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Bonita at the 75th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 4,825 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Bonita at the 76th percentile, close to its 75th-percentile risk score.
Where Bonita's buildings actually sit
86.6% of Bonita's 4,825 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 5.2% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Bonita against the rest of the country
Inside California, Bonita sits at just the 33rd percentile even though it scores 75th 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, Bonita ranks 7,839 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,541 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,050 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Bonita and the insurance market
Because Bonita 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.
Hardening a home in Bonita
With 86.6% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Bonita 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 Bonita's 7,839-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Bonita, see the exposure-zones guide.