Poinciana, FL
Poinciana wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Poinciana at the 93rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 22,254 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Poinciana at the 94th percentile, close to its 93rd-percentile risk score.
Poinciana's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 57.8% of Poinciana's 22,254 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 41.5% Direct and 0.7% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to. At 22,254 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Poinciana against the rest of the country
Poinciana scores 93rd nationally and 87th 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, Poinciana ranks 2,263 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 609 by building count (1 is largest). Within Florida alone, it ranks 124 of 955 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Florida on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Poinciana
Poinciana's very high rating (93rd percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Hardening a home in Poinciana
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Poinciana (57.8% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Poinciana's 93rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Poinciana, see the exposure-zones guide.