Wimauma, FL
Wimauma wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Wimauma at the 92nd national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 3,670 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Wimauma at the 94th percentile, close to its 92nd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
61.8% of Wimauma's 3,670 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 2,268 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 38.2% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Wimauma against the rest of the country
Wimauma scores 92nd nationally and 86th within Florida — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wimauma ranks 2,483 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,562 by building count (1 is largest). Within Florida alone, it ranks 138 of 955 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Florida on its state page.
Wimauma and the insurance market
Wimauma's very high rating (92nd percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Hardening a home in Wimauma
With 61.8% of Wimauma 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.
Where Wimauma's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 3,670 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Wimauma. The exposure-zones guide covers what Wimauma's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.