Blue Hills, CT
How exposed is Blue Hills to wildfire?
Blue Hills's 1,307 buildings earn a 27th-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.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Blue Hills at the 27th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Blue Hills's building exposure, zone by zone
89.9% of Blue Hills's 1,307 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 10.1% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Where Blue Hills ranks
There's little gap between Blue Hills's 27th national percentile and its 31st percentile inside Connecticut, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Blue Hills ranks 23,030 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,038 by building count (1 is largest). Within Connecticut alone, it ranks 149 of 214 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Connecticut on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 27th national percentile, Blue Hills rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Blue Hills
With 89.9% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Blue Hills gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Blue Hills's 27th-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 Blue Hills, see the exposure-zones guide.