Williston Highlands, FL
How exposed is Williston Highlands to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Williston Highlands lands at the 67th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 1,477 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Williston Highlands's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 68th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Williston Highlands: 77.4% of its 1,477 buildings, versus 16.7% Indirect and 5.9% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Williston Highlands ranks
Inside Florida, Williston Highlands sits at just the 22nd percentile even though it scores 67th 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 Highlands ranks 10,549 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,270 by building count (1 is largest). Within Florida alone, it ranks 743 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
Williston Highlands's 67th-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
Williston Highlands's 77.4% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
Where Williston Highlands's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Williston Highlands's 10,549-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Williston Highlands's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.