Branford, FL
Branford, FL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Branford's 517 buildings earn a 78th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Branford at the 78th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Branford's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Branford's buildings (71.2%) 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.
Where Branford ranks
Branford's 78th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 43rd ranking inside Florida does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 35 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Branford ranks 6,990 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,067 by building count (1 is largest). Within Florida alone, it ranks 547 of 955 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Florida on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Branford
Branford's 78th-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 Branford
Because 71.2% of Branford's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Branford's 6,990-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Branford, see the exposure-zones guide.