Hollywood, FL
How exposed is Hollywood to wildfire?
Hollywood sits at the 66th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 42,705 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Hollywood at the 68th percentile, close to its 66th-percentile risk score.
Where Hollywood's buildings actually sit
98.2% of Hollywood's 42,705 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 1.8% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 42,705 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Hollywood against the rest of the country
Inside Florida, Hollywood sits at just the 22nd percentile even though it scores 66th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hollywood ranks 10,582 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 222 by building count (1 is largest). Within Florida alone, it ranks 745 of 955 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Florida on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Hollywood
Hollywood's 66th-percentile, 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 Hollywood
Hollywood's 98.2% 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.
More on how this number was built
Hollywood's 66th-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 Hollywood, see the exposure-zones guide.