Orange Park, FL
How exposed is Orange Park to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Orange Park lands at the 58th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 3,211 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Orange Park at the 56th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 57.8% of Orange Park's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 42.2% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Orange Park ranks
Orange Park ranks lower within Florida (12th percentile statewide) than its 58th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Orange Park ranks 13,199 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,154 by building count (1 is largest). Within Florida alone, it ranks 843 of 955 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Florida on its state page.
Orange Park and the insurance market
Orange Park's elevated wildfire rating (58th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 57.8% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Orange Park gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Orange Park's 13,199-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Orange Park, see the exposure-zones guide.