Lehigh Acres, FL
Lehigh Acres wildfire risk explained
Lehigh Acres's 38,462 buildings earn a 89th-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.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Lehigh Acres at the 90th percentile, close to its 89th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Lehigh Acres's 38,462 counted buildings, 47.4% carry Direct exposure and only 39.5% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first. At 38,462 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Lehigh Acres compares
Lehigh Acres's risk sits at a similar level relative to Florida (79th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (89th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lehigh Acres ranks 3,465 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 261 by building count (1 is largest). Within Florida alone, it ranks 208 of 955 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Florida on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Lehigh Acres
Lehigh Acres's 89th-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
With 47.4% of Lehigh Acres in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
Where Lehigh Acres's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Lehigh Acres's 3,465-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Lehigh Acres's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.