Paradise Heights, FL
Paradise Heights wildfire risk explained
Paradise Heights's 483 buildings earn a 79th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Paradise Heights at the 80th percentile, close to its 79th-percentile risk score.
Paradise Heights's building exposure, zone by zone
483 buildings are counted in Paradise Heights, and 60.7% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 1% rated Minimal.
Paradise Heights against the rest of the country
Inside Florida, Paradise Heights sits at just the 45th percentile even though it scores 79th 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, Paradise Heights ranks 6,708 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,643 by building count (1 is largest). Within Florida alone, it ranks 528 of 955 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Florida on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 79th percentile nationally, Paradise Heights 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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 60.7% of Paradise Heights 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.
More on how this number was built
Paradise Heights's 79th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Paradise Heights, see the exposure-zones guide.