Ardencroft, DE
Ardencroft wildfire risk explained
Ardencroft's 96 buildings earn a 18th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Ardencroft at the 19th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Ardencroft's building exposure, zone by zone
69.8% of Ardencroft's 96 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 67 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 0% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 30.2% are Minimal.
Where Ardencroft ranks
Inside Delaware, Ardencroft sits at just the 1st percentile even though it scores 18th 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, Ardencroft ranks 25,896 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,220 by building count (1 is largest). Within Delaware alone, it ranks 78 of 79 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Delaware on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 18th national percentile, Ardencroft rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 69.8% of Ardencroft 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Ardencroft's 25,896-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Ardencroft, see the exposure-zones guide.