Alburgh, VT
Alburgh wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Alburgh lands at the 20th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 421 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Alburgh's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 18th percentile nationally.
Where Alburgh's buildings actually sit
421 buildings are counted in Alburgh, and 42.8% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 41.8% in Direct exposure or the 15.4% rated Minimal.
How Alburgh compares
Compare Alburgh's two percentiles: 90th within Vermont, only 20th nationally — a gap of 70 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Alburgh ranks 25,285 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,809 by building count (1 is largest). Within Vermont alone, it ranks 18 of 179 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Vermont on its state page.
Alburgh and the insurance market
Alburgh's low wildfire rating (20th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Alburgh
Alburgh's 42.8% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Alburgh's 20th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Alburgh, see the exposure-zones guide.