Wauchula, FL
How exposed is Wauchula to wildfire?
Wauchula's 1,828 buildings earn a 91st-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Wauchula at the 93rd percentile, close to its 91st-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
1,828 buildings are counted in Wauchula, and 39.4% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 33.8% in Direct exposure or the 26.8% rated Minimal.
Where Wauchula ranks
There's little gap between Wauchula's 91st national percentile and its 84th percentile inside Florida, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wauchula ranks 2,799 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,987 by building count (1 is largest). Within Florida alone, it ranks 156 of 955 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Florida on its state page.
Wauchula and the insurance market
Wauchula's 91st-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 39.4% of Wauchula'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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,828 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Wauchula. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Wauchula, see the exposure-zones guide.