Richmond West, FL
Richmond West, FL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Richmond West's 9,436 buildings earn a 76th-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.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Richmond West at the 80th national percentile — 3 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 4.3% of Richmond West's 9,436 buildings carry Direct exposure and 45.5% carry Indirect; the remaining 50.2% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 9,436 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Richmond West ranks
Inside Florida, Richmond West sits at just the 40th percentile even though it scores 76th 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, Richmond West ranks 7,470 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,729 by building count (1 is largest). Within Florida alone, it ranks 579 of 955 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Florida on its state page.
Richmond West and the insurance market
At the 76th percentile nationally, Richmond West 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
Richmond West's 50.2% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 9,436 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Richmond West. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Richmond West, see the exposure-zones guide.