Venice, FL
How exposed is Venice to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Venice lands at the 94th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 12,865 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Venice at the 93rd national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Venice's buildings actually sit
74.2% of Venice's 12,865 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 5.9% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 12,865 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Venice compares
There's little gap between Venice's 94th national percentile and its 88th percentile inside Florida, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Venice ranks 2,012 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,182 by building count (1 is largest). Within Florida alone, it ranks 113 of 955 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Florida on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Venice
Venice's very high rating (94th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 74.2% of Venice 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.
More on how this number was built
Venice's 94th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Venice, see the exposure-zones guide.