Hampton, FL
Hampton wildfire risk explained
Hampton's 281 buildings earn a 86th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Hampton's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 87th percentile nationally.
Hampton's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Hampton's 281 counted buildings, 81.1% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Hampton against the rest of the country
Hampton's 86th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 68th ranking inside Florida does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 18 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hampton ranks 4,408 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,145 by building count (1 is largest). Within Florida alone, it ranks 305 of 955 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Florida on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Hampton
Hampton's 86th-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 Hampton
Because Direct exposure dominates in Hampton (81.1%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Hampton's 86th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Hampton, see the exposure-zones guide.