Culver City, CA
Culver City, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Culver City sits at the 51st percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 12,641 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Culver City at the 53rd national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 99.8% of Culver City's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 0.2% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 12,641 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Culver City ranks
Inside California, Culver City sits at just the 11th percentile even though it scores 51st 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, Culver City ranks 15,527 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,209 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,398 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Culver City
Culver City sits in California, one of two states that legally require a wildfire-risk disclosure at sale. California's FAIR Plan, the state's insurer of last resort, ended 2025 with 668,609 residential policies after adding 21,859 in Q4 alone — the kind of market shift a 51st-percentile score like Culver City's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 99.8% of Culver City outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
Where Culver City's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Culver City's 15,527-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Culver City's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.