Bath, ME
Bath, ME's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Bath's 3,834 buildings earn a 7th-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 Bath at the 7th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Bath's buildings actually sit
3,834 buildings are counted in Bath, and 67.1% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 31.7% in Direct exposure or the 1.2% rated Minimal.
How Bath compares
There's little gap between Bath's 7th national percentile and its 14th percentile inside Maine, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bath ranks 29,248 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,393 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maine alone, it ranks 131 of 155 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maine on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Bath's low wildfire rating (7th 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
Because 67.1% of Bath's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where Bath's figures come from
Bath's 7th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Bath's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.