Waukeenah, FL
How exposed is Waukeenah to wildfire?
USFS scores Waukeenah at the 76th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 191 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Waukeenah at the 75th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Waukeenah's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Waukeenah's 191 counted buildings, 96.3% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Waukeenah against the rest of the country
Waukeenah's 76th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 39th ranking inside Florida does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 37 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Waukeenah ranks 7,627 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,190 by building count (1 is largest). Within Florida alone, it ranks 590 of 955 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Florida on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Waukeenah
At the 76th percentile nationally, Waukeenah carries the high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
What would actually reduce this score
Waukeenah's 96.3% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 191 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Waukeenah. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Waukeenah, see the exposure-zones guide.