Sharpes, FL
Sharpes wildfire risk explained
Sharpes's 1,913 buildings earn a 89th-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 Sharpes at the 89th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Sharpes's buildings (75.8%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Sharpes against the rest of the country
Sharpes scores 89th nationally and 78th 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, Sharpes ranks 3,525 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,725 by building count (1 is largest). Within Florida alone, it ranks 215 of 955 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Florida on its state page.
Sharpes and the insurance market
At the 89th percentile nationally, Sharpes 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 Sharpes
Because 75.8% of Sharpes's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Sharpes's 89th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Sharpes, see the exposure-zones guide.