Milton, FL
How exposed is Milton to wildfire?
Milton's 4,518 buildings earn a 80th-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.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Milton at the 81st 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
Most of Milton's buildings (67.7%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
How Milton compares
Milton's 80th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 49th ranking inside Florida does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 32 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Milton ranks 6,236 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,780 by building count (1 is largest). Within Florida alone, it ranks 492 of 955 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Florida on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Milton
At the 80th percentile nationally, Milton carries the very 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 Milton
Milton's 67.7% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Milton's 6,236-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Milton, see the exposure-zones guide.