Tice, FL
Tice wildfire risk explained
Tice's 1,750 buildings earn a 80th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Tice at the 80th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Tice's building exposure, zone by zone
Tice rates 74.9% Minimal exposure against just 25.1% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 1,750 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Tice against the rest of the country
Inside Florida, Tice sits at just the 48th percentile even though it scores 80th 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, Tice ranks 6,297 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,224 by building count (1 is largest). Within Florida alone, it ranks 498 of 955 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Florida on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Tice's high rating (80th 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.
Hardening a home in Tice
Even with 74.9% of Tice 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.
Where Tice's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Tice's 6,297-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Tice's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.