Bithlo, FL
Bithlo, FL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Bithlo at the 95th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 4,249 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Bithlo at the 96th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Bithlo's buildings actually sit
Of Bithlo's 4,249 counted buildings, 64% 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.
How Bithlo compares
Bithlo's risk sits at a similar level relative to Florida (93rd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (95th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bithlo ranks 1,569 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,016 by building count (1 is largest). Within Florida alone, it ranks 70 of 955 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Florida on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Bithlo
Bithlo's very high rating (95th 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 Bithlo
Bithlo's 64% 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
Bithlo's 95th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Bithlo, see the exposure-zones guide.