Williston, FL
Williston wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Williston lands at the 78th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 1,458 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Williston at the 79th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Williston's building exposure, zone by zone
56.8% of Williston's 1,458 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 828 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 43.2% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Where Williston ranks
Inside Florida, Williston sits at just the 43rd percentile even though it scores 78th 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, Williston ranks 6,993 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,359 by building count (1 is largest). Within Florida alone, it ranks 550 of 955 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Florida on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Williston
Williston's 78th-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 Williston (56.8%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,458 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Williston. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Williston, see the exposure-zones guide.