Wekiwa Springs, FL
How exposed is Wekiwa Springs to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Wekiwa Springs at the 77th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 7,768 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Wekiwa Springs's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 77th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Wekiwa Springs's 7,768 counted buildings, 40.1% carry Direct exposure and only 25.3% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first. At 7,768 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Wekiwa Springs compares
Inside Florida, Wekiwa Springs sits at just the 40th percentile even though it scores 77th 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, Wekiwa Springs ranks 7,401 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,191 by building count (1 is largest). Within Florida alone, it ranks 572 of 955 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Florida on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Wekiwa Springs's 77th-percentile, 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 Direct exposure dominates in Wekiwa Springs (40.1%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
Where Wekiwa Springs's figures come from
Wekiwa Springs's 77th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Wekiwa Springs's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.