Biddeford, ME
Biddeford wildfire risk explained
Biddeford's 8,148 buildings earn a 26th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Biddeford's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 26th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
8,148 buildings are counted in Biddeford, and 57.1% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 35.8% in Direct exposure or the 7.1% rated Minimal. At 8,148 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Biddeford compares
Within Maine, Biddeford ranks higher (94th percentile) than it does nationally (26th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Biddeford ranks 23,228 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,061 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maine alone, it ranks 11 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
Biddeford's moderate rating (26th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 57.1% of Biddeford'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 Biddeford's figures come from
Biddeford's 26th-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 Biddeford's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.