Golden Gate, FL
How exposed is Golden Gate to wildfire?
USFS scores Golden Gate at the 75th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 5,619 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Golden Gate at the 77th national percentile — 1 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
Golden Gate rates 88.9% Minimal exposure against just 6.7% Direct and 4.4% Indirect — of 5,619 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 5,619 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Golden Gate compares
Inside Florida, Golden Gate sits at just the 37th percentile even though it scores 75th 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, Golden Gate ranks 7,781 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,076 by building count (1 is largest). Within Florida alone, it ranks 602 of 955 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Florida on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Golden Gate
Golden Gate's high rating (75th 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 Golden Gate
Golden Gate's 88.9% 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 5,619 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Golden Gate. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Golden Gate, see the exposure-zones guide.