Egypt Lake-Leto, FL
How exposed is Egypt Lake-Leto to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Egypt Lake-Leto lands at the 57th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 9,473 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Egypt Lake-Leto at the 59th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Egypt Lake-Leto rates 91.1% Minimal exposure against just 8.9% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 9,473 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 9,473 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Egypt Lake-Leto ranks
Inside Florida, Egypt Lake-Leto sits at just the 11th percentile even though it scores 57th 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, Egypt Lake-Leto ranks 13,482 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,722 by building count (1 is largest). Within Florida alone, it ranks 855 of 955 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Florida on its state page.
Egypt Lake-Leto and the insurance market
At the 57th national percentile, Egypt Lake-Leto rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Egypt Lake-Leto's 91.1% 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.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 9,473 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Egypt Lake-Leto. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Egypt Lake-Leto, see the exposure-zones guide.