Redondo Beach, CA
Redondo Beach, CA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Redondo Beach sits at the 48th 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 20,233 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Redondo Beach at the 52nd national percentile — 4 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Redondo Beach's building exposure, zone by zone
Redondo Beach rates 99.9% Minimal exposure against just 0.1% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 20,233 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 20,233 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Redondo Beach compares
Redondo Beach's 48th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 9th ranking inside California does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 39 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Redondo Beach ranks 16,442 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 695 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 1,426 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Redondo Beach's 48th-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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 99.9% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Redondo Beach gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Redondo Beach's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 20,233 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Redondo Beach. The exposure-zones guide covers what Redondo Beach's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.