Bliss Corner, MA
Bliss Corner, MA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Bliss Corner sits at the 8th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 2,437 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Bliss Corner at the 8th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Bliss Corner's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 5.3% of Bliss Corner's 2,437 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 94.8% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Bliss Corner ranks
Bliss Corner's risk sits at a similar level relative to Massachusetts (1st percentile statewide) as it does nationally (8th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bliss Corner ranks 29,091 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,425 by building count (1 is largest). Within Massachusetts alone, it ranks 246 of 248 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Massachusetts on its state page.
Bliss Corner and the insurance market
At the 8th national percentile, Bliss Corner rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Bliss Corner's 94.8% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where Bliss Corner's figures come from
Bliss Corner's 8th-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 Bliss Corner's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.