North Port, FL
How exposed is North Port to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts North Port at the 95th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 31,687 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks North Port at the 94th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where North Port's buildings actually sit
North Port rates 47.4% Minimal exposure against just 35.3% Direct and 17.3% Indirect — of 31,687 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 31,687 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How North Port compares
North Port scores 95th nationally and 93rd within Florida — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, North Port ranks 1,598 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 352 by building count (1 is largest). Within Florida alone, it ranks 73 of 955 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Florida on its state page.
North Port and the insurance market
North Port's 95th-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
North Port's 47.4% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind North Port's 1,598-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond North Port, see the exposure-zones guide.