Braintree Town, MA
Braintree Town wildfire risk explained
Braintree Town's 12,405 buildings earn a 26th-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.)
Separately from the risk score above, Braintree Town's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 23rd percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 94.9% of Braintree Town's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 5.1% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 12,405 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Braintree Town compares
Braintree Town's 49th-percentile standing inside Massachusetts outpaces its 26th 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, Braintree Town ranks 23,382 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,245 by building count (1 is largest). Within Massachusetts alone, it ranks 128 of 248 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Massachusetts on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 26th national percentile, Braintree Town 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 Braintree Town
Braintree Town's 94.9% 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 Braintree Town's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 12,405 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Braintree Town. The exposure-zones guide covers what Braintree Town's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.