Attleboro, MA
Attleboro wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Attleboro lands at the 16th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 16,685 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Attleboro's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 15th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 40.4% of Attleboro's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 27.1% Direct and 32.4% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 16,685 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Attleboro compares
There's little gap between Attleboro's 16th national percentile and its 9th percentile inside Massachusetts, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Attleboro ranks 26,442 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 869 by building count (1 is largest). Within Massachusetts alone, it ranks 225 of 248 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Massachusetts on its state page.
Attleboro and the insurance market
Attleboro's low rating (16th 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 Attleboro
Even with 40.4% of Attleboro outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Attleboro's 16th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Attleboro, see the exposure-zones guide.