St. Lucie Village, FL
How exposed is St. Lucie Village to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts St. Lucie Village at the 81st national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 423 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 St. Lucie Village at the 79th percentile, close to its 81st-percentile risk score.
St. Lucie Village's building exposure, zone by zone
Of St. Lucie Village's 423 counted buildings, 45.9% carry Direct exposure and only 19.9% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where St. Lucie Village ranks
St. Lucie Village's 81st national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 51st ranking inside Florida does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 30 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, St. Lucie Village ranks 5,958 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,774 by building count (1 is largest). Within Florida alone, it ranks 470 of 955 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Florida on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in St. Lucie Village
St. Lucie Village's very high rating (81st 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
Because Direct exposure dominates in St. Lucie Village (45.9%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
Where St. Lucie Village's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 423 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for St. Lucie Village. The exposure-zones guide covers what St. Lucie Village's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.