Silver Springs Shores East, FL
Silver Springs Shores East, FL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Silver Springs Shores East at the 90th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 715 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Silver Springs Shores East at the 90th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Silver Springs Shores East's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Silver Springs Shores East's 715 counted buildings, 97.8% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Silver Springs Shores East against the rest of the country
Silver Springs Shores East scores 90th nationally and 80th 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, Silver Springs Shores East ranks 3,238 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,511 by building count (1 is largest). Within Florida alone, it ranks 188 of 955 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Florida on its state page.
Silver Springs Shores East and the insurance market
Silver Springs Shores East's very high rating (90th 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.
Hardening a home in Silver Springs Shores East
With 97.8% of Silver Springs Shores East 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.
More on how this number was built
Silver Springs Shores East's 90th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Silver Springs Shores East, see the exposure-zones guide.