South Venice, FL
South Venice wildfire risk explained
South Venice's 8,650 buildings earn a 84th-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 South Venice at the 82nd percentile, close to its 84th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 5.1% of South Venice's 8,650 buildings carry Direct exposure and 6.4% carry Indirect; the remaining 88.5% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 8,650 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 Venice ranks
Inside Florida, South Venice sits at just the 61st percentile even though it scores 84th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, South Venice ranks 5,037 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,923 by building count (1 is largest). Within Florida alone, it ranks 376 of 955 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Florida on its state page.
South Venice and the insurance market
At the 84th percentile nationally, South Venice carries the very high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Hardening a home in South Venice
Even with 88.5% of South Venice outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind South Venice's 5,037-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 Venice, see the exposure-zones guide.