Lake Belvedere Estates, FL
How exposed is Lake Belvedere Estates to wildfire?
Lake Belvedere Estates sits at the 51st percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 594 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Lake Belvedere Estates at the 55th national percentile — 4 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Lake Belvedere Estates's buildings actually sit
Only 7.9% of Lake Belvedere Estates's 594 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 92.1% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Lake Belvedere Estates compares
Lake Belvedere Estates's 51st national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 4th ranking inside Florida does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 46 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lake Belvedere Estates ranks 15,558 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,905 by building count (1 is largest). Within Florida alone, it ranks 914 of 955 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Florida on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Lake Belvedere Estates
Lake Belvedere Estates's elevated wildfire rating (51st percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Lake Belvedere Estates
Lake Belvedere Estates's 92.1% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 594 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Lake Belvedere Estates. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Lake Belvedere Estates, see the exposure-zones guide.