Canal Point, FL
Canal Point, FL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Canal Point sits at the 47th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 193 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Canal Point at the 51st percentile, close to its 47th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 61.7% of Canal Point's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 38.3% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Canal Point against the rest of the country
Inside Florida, Canal Point sits at just the 2nd percentile even though it scores 47th 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, Canal Point ranks 16,662 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,113 by building count (1 is largest). Within Florida alone, it ranks 935 of 955 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Florida on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Canal Point
Canal Point's elevated rating (47th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Canal Point
Canal Point's 61.7% 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.
Where Canal Point's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Canal Point's 16,662-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Canal Point's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.