South Patrick Shores, FL
South Patrick Shores wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts South Patrick Shores at the 58th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 2,637 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks South Patrick Shores at the 62nd national percentile — 4 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where South Patrick Shores's buildings actually sit
South Patrick Shores rates 94.1% Minimal exposure against just 5.9% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 2,637 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where South Patrick Shores ranks
South Patrick Shores's 58th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 12th ranking inside Florida does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 46 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, South Patrick Shores ranks 13,200 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,037 by building count (1 is largest). Within Florida alone, it ranks 844 of 955 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Florida on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in South Patrick Shores
South Patrick Shores's elevated wildfire rating (58th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in South Patrick Shores
With 94.1% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, South Patrick Shores gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind South Patrick Shores's 13,200-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond South Patrick Shores, see the exposure-zones guide.