Kendall, FL
Kendall, FL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Kendall's 16,757 buildings earn a 60th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Kendall at the 68th percentile, close to its 60th-percentile risk score.
Where Kendall's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 83.5% of Kendall's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 16.5% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 16,757 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Kendall ranks
Inside Florida, Kendall sits at just the 15th percentile even though it scores 60th 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, Kendall ranks 12,540 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 863 by building count (1 is largest). Within Florida alone, it ranks 816 of 955 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Florida on its state page.
Kendall and the insurance market
At the 60th percentile nationally, Kendall carries the 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 Kendall
With 83.5% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Kendall gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Kendall's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Kendall's 12,540-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Kendall's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.