Sorrento, FL
Sorrento, FL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Sorrento's 452 buildings earn a 80th-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.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Sorrento at the 84th percentile, close to its 80th-percentile risk score.
Sorrento's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 84.3% of Sorrento's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 15.7% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 381 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Sorrento against the rest of the country
Sorrento's 80th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 50th ranking inside Florida does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 31 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sorrento ranks 6,173 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,235 by building count (1 is largest). Within Florida alone, it ranks 483 of 955 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Florida on its state page.
Sorrento and the insurance market
Sorrento's 80th-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Sorrento's 84.3% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 452 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Sorrento. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Sorrento, see the exposure-zones guide.