Casselberry, FL
Casselberry wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Casselberry at the 65th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 8,302 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Casselberry's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 67th percentile nationally.
Where Casselberry's buildings actually sit
Most of Casselberry's buildings (83.9% of 8,302) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure. At 8,302 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Casselberry compares
Inside Florida, Casselberry sits at just the 20th percentile even though it scores 65th 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, Casselberry ranks 10,996 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,008 by building count (1 is largest). Within Florida alone, it ranks 768 of 955 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Florida on its state page.
Casselberry and the insurance market
Casselberry's 65th-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.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 83.9% of Casselberry 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.
More on how this number was built
Casselberry's 65th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Casselberry, see the exposure-zones guide.