Perry, FL
How exposed is Perry to wildfire?
Perry's 3,393 buildings earn a 82nd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Perry's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 82nd percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Perry: 54.3% of its 3,393 buildings, versus 45.7% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Perry against the rest of the country
Perry ranks lower within Florida (53rd percentile statewide) than its 82nd national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Perry ranks 5,702 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,927 by building count (1 is largest). Within Florida alone, it ranks 448 of 955 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Florida on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Perry
Perry's 82nd-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.
Hardening a home in Perry
Perry's 54.3% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 3,393 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Perry. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Perry, see the exposure-zones guide.