Ardentown, DE
How exposed is Ardentown to wildfire?
USFS scores Ardentown at the 18th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 161 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Ardentown's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 18th percentile nationally.
Ardentown's building exposure, zone by zone
81.4% of Ardentown's 161 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 131 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 0% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 18.6% are Minimal.
How Ardentown compares
Ardentown's 18th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 3rd ranking inside Delaware does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 15 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Ardentown ranks 25,865 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,369 by building count (1 is largest). Within Delaware alone, it ranks 77 of 79 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Delaware on its state page.
Ardentown and the insurance market
Ardentown's low rating (18th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Ardentown
Ardentown's 81.4% 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
Ardentown's 18th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Ardentown, see the exposure-zones guide.