Washington Park, FL
Washington Park, FL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Washington Park lands at the 48th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 645 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Washington Park at the 54th national percentile — 6 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 97.8% of Washington Park's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 2.2% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Washington Park against the rest of the country
Inside Florida, Washington Park sits at just the 2nd percentile even though it scores 48th 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, Washington Park ranks 16,538 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,260 by building count (1 is largest). Within Florida alone, it ranks 932 of 955 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Florida on its state page.
Washington Park and the insurance market
Washington Park's elevated wildfire rating (48th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 97.8% of Washington Park 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Washington Park's 16,538-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Washington Park, see the exposure-zones guide.