Fairview Shores, FL
Fairview Shores, FL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Fairview Shores lands at the 59th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 4,513 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Fairview Shores at the 63rd percentile, close to its 59th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 74.5% of Fairview Shores's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 25.6% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Fairview Shores compares
Fairview Shores's 59th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 13th ranking inside Florida does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 46 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Fairview Shores ranks 12,818 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,784 by building count (1 is largest). Within Florida alone, it ranks 829 of 955 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Florida on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 59th national percentile, Fairview Shores 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 Fairview Shores
Even with 74.5% of Fairview Shores 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 Fairview Shores's 12,818-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Fairview Shores, see the exposure-zones guide.