Clewiston, FL
How exposed is Clewiston to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Clewiston at the 77th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 2,915 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Clewiston at the 73rd national percentile — 4 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Clewiston's buildings actually sit
Only 14.3% of Clewiston's 2,915 buildings carry Direct exposure and 38.2% carry Indirect; the remaining 47.4% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Clewiston compares
Clewiston's 77th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 41st ranking inside Florida does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 36 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Clewiston ranks 7,274 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,561 by building count (1 is largest). Within Florida alone, it ranks 568 of 955 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Florida on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Clewiston
Clewiston's 77th-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 47.4% of Clewiston 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.
Where Clewiston's figures come from
Clewiston's 77th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Clewiston's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.