Tildenville, FL
Tildenville, FL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Tildenville at the 75th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 187 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Tildenville at the 74th percentile, close to its 75th-percentile risk score.
Tildenville's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Tildenville: 54% of its 187 buildings, versus 0% Indirect and 46% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Tildenville against the rest of the country
Tildenville ranks lower within Florida (37th percentile statewide) than its 75th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Tildenville ranks 7,782 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,343 by building count (1 is largest). Within Florida alone, it ranks 603 of 955 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Florida on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Tildenville
Tildenville's 75th-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Hardening a home in Tildenville
Tildenville's 54% 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
Tildenville's 75th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Tildenville, see the exposure-zones guide.