Immokalee, FL
Immokalee wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Immokalee at the 95th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 6,144 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Immokalee at the 96th percentile, close to its 95th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
6,144 buildings are counted in Immokalee, and 65.5% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 34.5% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal. At 6,144 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Immokalee compares
Immokalee scores 95th nationally and 93rd within Florida — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Immokalee ranks 1,570 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,821 by building count (1 is largest). Within Florida alone, it ranks 71 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 95th percentile nationally, Immokalee 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.
Hardening a home in Immokalee
Because 65.5% of Immokalee's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 6,144 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Immokalee. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Immokalee, see the exposure-zones guide.