Algiers, VT
Algiers, VT's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Algiers lands at the 18th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 115 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Algiers's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 17th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
115 buildings are counted in Algiers, and 64.4% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Algiers against the rest of the country
Compare Algiers's two percentiles: 77th within Vermont, only 18th nationally — a gap of 60 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Algiers ranks 26,015 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,430 by building count (1 is largest). Within Vermont alone, it ranks 42 of 179 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Vermont on its state page.
Algiers and the insurance market
Algiers's low wildfire rating (18th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Algiers's 64.4% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Algiers's 26,015-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Algiers, see the exposure-zones guide.