Port St. Lucie, FL
How exposed is Port St. Lucie to wildfire?
Port St. Lucie's 74,853 buildings earn a 85th-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.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Port St. Lucie at the 87th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 34.8% of Port St. Lucie's 74,853 buildings carry Direct exposure and 15.5% carry Indirect; the remaining 49.7% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 74,853 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Port St. Lucie against the rest of the country
Inside Florida, Port St. Lucie sits at just the 66th percentile even though it scores 85th 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, Port St. Lucie ranks 4,632 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 100 by building count (1 is largest). Within Florida alone, it ranks 328 of 955 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Florida on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Port St. Lucie
At the 85th percentile nationally, Port St. Lucie carries the very 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.
Hardening a home in Port St. Lucie
With 49.7% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Port St. Lucie gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Port St. Lucie's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Port St. Lucie's 4,632-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Port St. Lucie's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.