Winter Park, FL
How exposed is Winter Park to wildfire?
Winter Park sits at the 63rd percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 11,844 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Winter Park's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 65th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Winter Park's buildings (68.5% of 11,844) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure. At 11,844 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Winter Park compares
Winter Park's 63rd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 17th ranking inside Florida does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 46 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Winter Park ranks 11,808 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,318 by building count (1 is largest). Within Florida alone, it ranks 794 of 955 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Florida on its state page.
Winter Park and the insurance market
Winter Park's high rating (63rd 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 Winter Park
Winter Park's 68.5% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where Winter Park's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Winter Park's 11,808-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Winter Park's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.