Bigelow Corners, CT
Bigelow Corners, CT's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Bigelow Corners at the 41st national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 451 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Bigelow Corners at the 39th percentile, close to its 41st-percentile risk score.
Where Bigelow Corners's buildings actually sit
451 buildings are counted in Bigelow Corners, and 100% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Bigelow Corners against the rest of the country
Bigelow Corners's 82nd-percentile standing inside Connecticut outpaces its 41st national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bigelow Corners ranks 18,710 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,251 by building count (1 is largest). Within Connecticut alone, it ranks 38 of 214 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Connecticut on its state page.
Bigelow Corners and the insurance market
Bigelow Corners's elevated wildfire rating (41st 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
Bigelow Corners's 100% 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.
Where Bigelow Corners's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Bigelow Corners's 18,710-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Bigelow Corners's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.