San Carlos Park, FL
San Carlos Park, FL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
San Carlos Park's 7,066 buildings earn a 84th-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.)
Separately from the risk score above, San Carlos Park's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 83rd percentile nationally.
Where San Carlos Park's buildings actually sit
San Carlos Park rates 62.5% Minimal exposure against just 7.4% Direct and 30.1% Indirect — of 7,066 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 7,066 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How San Carlos Park compares
Inside Florida, San Carlos Park sits at just the 60th percentile even though it scores 84th 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, San Carlos Park ranks 5,072 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,425 by building count (1 is largest). Within Florida alone, it ranks 380 of 955 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Florida on its state page.
San Carlos Park and the insurance market
San Carlos Park's 84th-percentile, very high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Hardening a home in San Carlos Park
Even with 62.5% of San Carlos Park outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
Where San Carlos Park's figures come from
San Carlos Park's 84th-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 San Carlos Park's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.