Bogus Hill, CT
How exposed is Bogus Hill to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Bogus Hill at the 42nd national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 159 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Bogus Hill at the 40th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Bogus Hill's buildings actually sit
98.1% of Bogus Hill's 159 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 156 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 0% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 1.9% are Minimal.
Where Bogus Hill ranks
Bogus Hill's 89th-percentile standing inside Connecticut outpaces its 42nd 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, Bogus Hill ranks 18,237 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,471 by building count (1 is largest). Within Connecticut alone, it ranks 25 of 214 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Connecticut on its state page.
Bogus Hill and the insurance market
At the 42nd national percentile, Bogus Hill rates elevated 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
Bogus Hill's 98.1% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Bogus Hill's 18,237-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Bogus Hill, see the exposure-zones guide.