Westchase, FL
How exposed is Westchase to wildfire?
USFS scores Westchase at the 81st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 7,181 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Westchase's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 80th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Westchase's buildings (77.4%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone. At 7,181 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Westchase compares
Inside Florida, Westchase sits at just the 50th percentile even though it scores 81st 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, Westchase ranks 6,080 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,384 by building count (1 is largest). Within Florida alone, it ranks 477 of 955 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Florida on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Westchase
At the 81st percentile nationally, Westchase carries the very 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
Because 77.4% of Westchase'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 7,181 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Westchase. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Westchase, see the exposure-zones guide.