Ridge Wood Heights, FL
Ridge Wood Heights wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Ridge Wood Heights at the 54th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 2,228 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Ridge Wood Heights at the 55th percentile, close to its 54th-percentile risk score.
Ridge Wood Heights's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 90.1% of Ridge Wood Heights's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 9.9% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Ridge Wood Heights against the rest of the country
Ridge Wood Heights ranks lower within Florida (7th percentile statewide) than its 54th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Ridge Wood Heights ranks 14,522 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,866 by building count (1 is largest). Within Florida alone, it ranks 892 of 955 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Florida on its state page.
Ridge Wood Heights and the insurance market
At the 54th national percentile, Ridge Wood Heights rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Ridge Wood Heights
Ridge Wood Heights's 90.1% 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.
Where Ridge Wood Heights's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 2,228 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Ridge Wood Heights. The exposure-zones guide covers what Ridge Wood Heights's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.