Patrick AFB, FL
Patrick AFB, FL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Patrick AFB at the 55th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 564 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Patrick AFB's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 60th percentile nationally.
Patrick AFB's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 95.2% of Patrick AFB's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 4.8% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Patrick AFB compares
Inside Florida, Patrick AFB sits at just the 8th percentile even though it scores 55th 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, Patrick AFB ranks 14,236 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,336 by building count (1 is largest). Within Florida alone, it ranks 879 of 955 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Florida on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Patrick AFB
At the 55th national percentile, Patrick AFB rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Patrick AFB
Patrick AFB's 95.2% 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 Patrick AFB's 14,236-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Patrick AFB, see the exposure-zones guide.