Southport, FL
Southport, FL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Southport lands at the 85th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 702 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Southport at the 85th percentile, close to its 85th-percentile risk score.
Southport's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Southport: 62% of its 702 buildings, versus 36% Indirect and 2% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Southport compares
Southport's 85th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 63rd ranking inside Florida does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 22 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Southport ranks 4,784 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,633 by building count (1 is largest). Within Florida alone, it ranks 352 of 955 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Florida on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Southport
At the 85th percentile nationally, Southport 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Southport's 62% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Southport's 4,784-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Southport, see the exposure-zones guide.