South Highpoint, FL
How exposed is South Highpoint to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts South Highpoint at the 53rd national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 1,626 actual buildings. (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 Highpoint at the 56th percentile, close to its 53rd-percentile risk score.
Where South Highpoint's buildings actually sit
South Highpoint rates 95.5% Minimal exposure against just 4.6% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 1,626 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
South Highpoint against the rest of the country
South Highpoint ranks lower within Florida (6th percentile statewide) than its 53rd national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, South Highpoint ranks 14,835 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,669 by building count (1 is largest). Within Florida alone, it ranks 898 of 955 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Florida on its state page.
South Highpoint and the insurance market
South Highpoint's elevated rating (53rd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
South Highpoint's 95.5% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
South Highpoint's 53rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond South Highpoint, see the exposure-zones guide.