Green Cove Springs, FL
Green Cove Springs, FL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Green Cove Springs sits at the 83rd percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 3,570 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Green Cove Springs's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 84th percentile nationally.
Where Green Cove Springs's buildings actually sit
Indirect exposure is dominant in Green Cove Springs (61.8% of 3,570 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 37.9% sit in the Direct zone.
Where Green Cove Springs ranks
Green Cove Springs ranks lower within Florida (59th percentile statewide) than its 83rd national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Green Cove Springs ranks 5,257 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,690 by building count (1 is largest). Within Florida alone, it ranks 395 of 955 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Florida on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Green Cove Springs
Green Cove Springs's 83rd-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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 61.8% of Green Cove Springs's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Green Cove Springs's 83rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Green Cove Springs, see the exposure-zones guide.