Gulfport, FL
How exposed is Gulfport to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Gulfport at the 54th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 5,649 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Gulfport at the 56th percentile, close to its 54th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Gulfport's buildings (95.1% of 5,649) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure. At 5,649 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Gulfport against the rest of the country
Gulfport's 54th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 7th ranking inside Florida does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 47 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Gulfport ranks 14,460 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,062 by building count (1 is largest). Within Florida alone, it ranks 889 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 54th national percentile, Gulfport rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
With 95.1% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Gulfport gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Gulfport's 54th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Gulfport, see the exposure-zones guide.