West Park, FL
West Park wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts West Park at the 59th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 5,110 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks West Park at the 65th 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
Only 2.7% of West Park's 5,110 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 97.3% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 5,110 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How West Park compares
West Park's 59th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 13th ranking inside Florida does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 46 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, West Park ranks 12,914 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,375 by building count (1 is largest). Within Florida alone, it ranks 832 of 955 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Florida on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in West Park
West Park's elevated wildfire rating (59th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 97.3% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, West Park gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where West Park's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 5,110 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for West Park. The exposure-zones guide covers what West Park's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.