El Portal, FL
El Portal, FL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
El Portal's 975 buildings earn a 54th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, El Portal's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 61st percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
El Portal rates 87.9% Minimal exposure against just 12.1% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 975 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where El Portal ranks
El Portal ranks lower within Florida (7th percentile statewide) than its 54th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, El Portal ranks 14,459 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,103 by building count (1 is largest). Within Florida alone, it ranks 888 of 955 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Florida on its state page.
El Portal and the insurance market
At the 54th national percentile, El Portal rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in El Portal
Even with 87.9% of El Portal 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind El Portal's 14,459-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond El Portal, see the exposure-zones guide.