Belleview, FL
Belleview, FL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Belleview lands at the 76th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 2,409 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 Belleview at the 77th percentile, close to its 76th-percentile risk score.
Where Belleview's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 56.5% of Belleview's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 37.2% Direct and 6.4% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Belleview against the rest of the country
Inside Florida, Belleview sits at just the 38th percentile even though it scores 76th 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, Belleview ranks 7,683 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,493 by building count (1 is largest). Within Florida alone, it ranks 594 of 955 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Florida on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Belleview's 76th-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Hardening a home in Belleview
Even with 56.5% of Belleview 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 Belleview's figures come from
Belleview's 76th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Belleview's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.