Ridge Manor, FL
How exposed is Ridge Manor to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Ridge Manor at the 91st national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 2,416 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Ridge Manor at the 91st national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Ridge Manor's buildings actually sit
2,416 buildings are counted in Ridge Manor, and 82.7% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 8.9% rated Minimal.
How Ridge Manor compares
Ridge Manor scores 91st nationally and 83rd 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, Ridge Manor ranks 2,925 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,470 by building count (1 is largest). Within Florida alone, it ranks 165 of 955 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Florida on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Ridge Manor
Ridge Manor's very high rating (91st 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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 82.7% of Ridge Manor in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
Where Ridge Manor's figures come from
Ridge Manor's 91st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Ridge Manor's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.