Tamarac, FL
Tamarac wildfire risk explained
Tamarac sits at the 99th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 15,637 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Tamarac at the 99th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Tamarac's buildings actually sit
87.6% of Tamarac's 15,637 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 4.4% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 15,637 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Tamarac against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Tamarac's 99th national percentile and its 99th percentile inside Florida, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Tamarac ranks 318 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 942 by building count (1 is largest). Within Florida alone, it ranks 9 of 955 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Florida on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Tamarac
Tamarac's very high rating (99th 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
With 87.6% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Tamarac 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 15,637 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Tamarac. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Tamarac, see the exposure-zones guide.