Istachatta, FL
How exposed is Istachatta to wildfire?
Istachatta's 83 buildings earn a 90th-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, Istachatta's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 91st percentile nationally.
Istachatta's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 81.9% of Istachatta's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 18.1% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 68 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Where Istachatta ranks
There's little gap between Istachatta's 90th national percentile and its 81st percentile inside Florida, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Istachatta ranks 3,181 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,754 by building count (1 is largest). Within Florida alone, it ranks 180 of 955 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Florida on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Istachatta
Istachatta's 90th-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 Istachatta
Istachatta's 81.9% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Istachatta's 3,181-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Istachatta, see the exposure-zones guide.