Alafaya, FL
Alafaya wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Alafaya lands at the 94th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 23,835 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Alafaya at the 95th percentile, close to its 94th-percentile risk score.
Where Alafaya's buildings actually sit
Most of Alafaya's buildings (50.8%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone. At 23,835 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Alafaya compares
Alafaya's risk sits at a similar level relative to Florida (90th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (94th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Alafaya ranks 1,851 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 537 by building count (1 is largest). Within Florida alone, it ranks 95 of 955 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Florida on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Alafaya
At the 94th percentile nationally, Alafaya carries the very high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
What would actually reduce this score
Alafaya's 50.8% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Alafaya's 1,851-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Alafaya, see the exposure-zones guide.