Briny Breezes, FL
Briny Breezes wildfire risk explained
Briny Breezes's 289 buildings earn a 58th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Briny Breezes at the 60th percentile, close to its 58th-percentile risk score.
Briny Breezes's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 98.6% of Briny Breezes's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 1.4% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Briny Breezes ranks
Inside Florida, Briny Breezes sits at just the 12th percentile even though it scores 58th 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, Briny Breezes ranks 13,233 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,936 by building count (1 is largest). Within Florida alone, it ranks 845 of 955 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Florida on its state page.
Briny Breezes and the insurance market
Briny Breezes's elevated wildfire rating (58th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Briny Breezes
Briny Breezes's 98.6% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Briny Breezes's 13,233-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Briny Breezes, see the exposure-zones guide.