North DeLand, FL
How exposed is North DeLand to wildfire?
USFS scores North DeLand at the 76th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 681 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts North DeLand at the 77th percentile, close to its 76th-percentile risk score.
North DeLand's building exposure, zone by zone
681 buildings are counted in North DeLand, and 63.1% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 36.9% rated Minimal.
Where North DeLand ranks
Inside Florida, North DeLand sits at just the 38th percentile even though it scores 76th 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, North DeLand ranks 7,685 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,844 by building count (1 is largest). Within Florida alone, it ranks 596 of 955 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Florida on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in North DeLand
At the 76th percentile nationally, North DeLand 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
North DeLand's 63.1% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind North DeLand's 7,685-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond North DeLand, see the exposure-zones guide.