Daytona Beach Shores, FL
How exposed is Daytona Beach Shores to wildfire?
Daytona Beach Shores sits at the 71st percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 813 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Daytona Beach Shores's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 67th percentile nationally.
Daytona Beach Shores's building exposure, zone by zone
99.5% of Daytona Beach Shores's 813 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 0.5% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
How Daytona Beach Shores compares
Daytona Beach Shores's 71st national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 29th ranking inside Florida does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 42 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Daytona Beach Shores ranks 9,010 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,519 by building count (1 is largest). Within Florida alone, it ranks 677 of 955 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Florida on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Daytona Beach Shores
Daytona Beach Shores's high rating (71st percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Hardening a home in Daytona Beach Shores
With 99.5% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Daytona Beach Shores gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Daytona Beach Shores's 9,010-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Daytona Beach Shores, see the exposure-zones guide.