Tyndall AFB, FL
Tyndall AFB, FL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Tyndall AFB at the 85th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 1,232 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Tyndall AFB at the 83rd national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Tyndall AFB's buildings (84.4%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
How Tyndall AFB compares
Inside Florida, Tyndall AFB sits at just the 65th percentile even though it scores 85th 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, Tyndall AFB ranks 4,699 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,459 by building count (1 is largest). Within Florida alone, it ranks 341 of 955 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Florida on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Tyndall AFB
Tyndall AFB's 85th-percentile, very 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 84.4% of Tyndall AFB's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Tyndall AFB's 85th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Tyndall AFB, see the exposure-zones guide.