Hialeah, FL
Hialeah wildfire risk explained
Hialeah's 38,625 buildings earn a 85th-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.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Hialeah at the 82nd percentile, close to its 85th-percentile risk score.
Where Hialeah's buildings actually sit
Only 0.8% of Hialeah's 38,625 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 99.1% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 38,625 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Hialeah against the rest of the country
Hialeah ranks lower within Florida (65th percentile statewide) than its 85th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hialeah ranks 4,695 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 258 by building count (1 is largest). Within Florida alone, it ranks 337 of 955 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Florida on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Hialeah
Hialeah's very high rating (85th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 99.1% of Hialeah outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Hialeah's 4,695-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Hialeah, see the exposure-zones guide.