Jupiter Island, FL
Jupiter Island, FL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Jupiter Island at the 86th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 1,060 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Jupiter Island at the 85th percentile, close to its 86th-percentile risk score.
Jupiter Island's building exposure, zone by zone
1,060 buildings are counted in Jupiter Island, and 55.4% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 41.9% in Direct exposure or the 2.7% rated Minimal.
Where Jupiter Island ranks
Inside Florida, Jupiter Island sits at just the 69th percentile even though it scores 86th 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, Jupiter Island ranks 4,314 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,516 by building count (1 is largest). Within Florida alone, it ranks 299 of 955 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Florida on its state page.
Jupiter Island and the insurance market
Jupiter Island's 86th-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 55.4% of Jupiter Island'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.
Where Jupiter Island's figures come from
Jupiter Island's 86th-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 Jupiter Island's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.