Bascom, FL
Bascom, FL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Bascom at the 65th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 99 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Bascom at the 66th percentile, close to its 65th-percentile risk score.
Where Bascom's buildings actually sit
Of Bascom's 99 counted buildings, 100% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Bascom against the rest of the country
Bascom's 65th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 20th ranking inside Florida does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 46 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bascom ranks 10,995 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,068 by building count (1 is largest). Within Florida alone, it ranks 767 of 955 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Florida on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Bascom
At the 65th percentile nationally, Bascom carries the 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
Because Direct exposure dominates in Bascom (100%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Bascom's 10,995-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Bascom, see the exposure-zones guide.