South Bradenton, FL
How exposed is South Bradenton to wildfire?
South Bradenton's 8,238 buildings earn a 63rd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts South Bradenton at the 66th percentile, close to its 63rd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
South Bradenton rates 97.7% Minimal exposure against just 2.3% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 8,238 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 8,238 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where South Bradenton ranks
South Bradenton's 63rd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 17th ranking inside Florida does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 45 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, South Bradenton ranks 11,807 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,031 by building count (1 is largest). Within Florida alone, it ranks 793 of 955 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Florida on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
South Bradenton's high rating (63rd 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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 97.7% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, South Bradenton gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where South Bradenton's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind South Bradenton's 11,807-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what South Bradenton's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.