Crescent City, FL
How exposed is Crescent City to wildfire?
Crescent City sits at the 88th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 960 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 Crescent City at the 88th percentile, close to its 88th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 63.4% of Crescent City's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 30.7% Indirect share and far above its 5.8% Minimal share — a profile where 609 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Where Crescent City ranks
Crescent City's risk sits at a similar level relative to Florida (75th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (88th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Crescent City ranks 3,774 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,224 by building count (1 is largest). Within Florida alone, it ranks 238 of 955 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Florida on its state page.
Crescent City and the insurance market
At the 88th percentile nationally, Crescent City carries the very high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
What would actually reduce this score
Crescent City's 63.4% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 960 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Crescent City. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Crescent City, see the exposure-zones guide.