Bradley, ME
Bradley, ME's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Bradley lands at the 9th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 497 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Bradley at the 8th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Bradley's building exposure, zone by zone
80.3% of Bradley's 497 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 399 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 18.7% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 1% are Minimal.
Bradley against the rest of the country
Compare Bradley's two percentiles: 34th within Maine, only 9th nationally — a gap of 26 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bradley ranks 28,807 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,405 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maine alone, it ranks 102 of 155 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maine on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Bradley
Bradley's low wildfire rating (9th 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.
Hardening a home in Bradley
Because Direct exposure dominates in Bradley (80.3%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Bradley's 28,807-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Bradley, see the exposure-zones guide.