Floridatown, FL
Floridatown, FL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Floridatown lands at the 88th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 150 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Floridatown at the 86th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Floridatown: 84.7% of its 150 buildings, versus 14% Indirect and 1.3% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Floridatown compares
Floridatown'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, Floridatown ranks 3,808 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,868 by building count (1 is largest). Within Florida alone, it ranks 243 of 955 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Florida on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Floridatown
Floridatown's 88th-percentile, very high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Hardening a home in Floridatown
With 84.7% of Floridatown in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 150 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Floridatown. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Floridatown, see the exposure-zones guide.