Hialeah Gardens, FL
Hialeah Gardens wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Hialeah Gardens at the 88th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 4,492 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Hialeah Gardens's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 85th percentile nationally.
Hialeah Gardens's building exposure, zone by zone
95.2% of Hialeah Gardens's 4,492 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 2.8% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
How Hialeah Gardens compares
There's little gap between Hialeah Gardens's 88th national percentile and its 74th percentile inside Florida, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hialeah Gardens ranks 3,809 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,801 by building count (1 is largest). Within Florida alone, it ranks 244 of 955 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Florida on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Hialeah Gardens
At the 88th percentile nationally, Hialeah Gardens carries the very high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Hialeah Gardens's 95.2% 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.
Where Hialeah Gardens's figures come from
Hialeah Gardens's 88th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Hialeah Gardens's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.