Wewahitchka, FL
Wewahitchka, FL's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Wewahitchka at the 84th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 1,420 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Wewahitchka's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 85th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 81.9% of Wewahitchka's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 17.8% Indirect share and far above its 0.3% Minimal share — a profile where 1,163 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Wewahitchka against the rest of the country
Wewahitchka ranks lower within Florida (62nd percentile statewide) than its 84th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wewahitchka ranks 4,947 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,537 by building count (1 is largest). Within Florida alone, it ranks 369 of 955 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Florida on its state page.
Wewahitchka and the insurance market
Wewahitchka's 84th-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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 81.9% of Wewahitchka in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Wewahitchka's 4,947-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Wewahitchka, see the exposure-zones guide.