Lakeside, FL
How exposed is Lakeside to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Lakeside at the 66th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 12,476 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Lakeside at the 67th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 51.2% of Lakeside's 12,476 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 30.2% Direct and 18.6% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to. At 12,476 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Lakeside against the rest of the country
Lakeside's 66th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 21st ranking inside Florida does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 45 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lakeside ranks 10,737 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,237 by building count (1 is largest). Within Florida alone, it ranks 753 of 955 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Florida on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Lakeside
At the 66th percentile nationally, Lakeside 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 51.2% of Lakeside'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
Lakeside's 66th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Lakeside, see the exposure-zones guide.