Babson Park, FL
Babson Park wildfire risk explained
Babson Park's 570 buildings earn a 88th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Babson Park at the 90th national percentile — 2 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 53.9% of Babson Park's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 35.6% Indirect share and far above its 10.5% Minimal share — a profile where 307 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Babson Park against the rest of the country
Babson Park's risk sits at a similar level relative to Florida (75th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (88th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Babson Park ranks 3,807 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,245 by building count (1 is largest). Within Florida alone, it ranks 242 of 955 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Florida on its state page.
Babson Park and the insurance market
Babson Park's very high rating (88th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Hardening a home in Babson Park
Babson Park's 53.9% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Babson Park's 3,807-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Babson Park, see the exposure-zones guide.