Bridgeport, CT
How exposed is Bridgeport to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Bridgeport lands at the 22nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 32,253 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Bridgeport at the 21st national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Bridgeport's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 96.3% of Bridgeport's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 1.5% Direct and 2.2% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 32,253 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Bridgeport against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Bridgeport's 22nd national percentile and its 14th percentile inside Connecticut, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bridgeport ranks 24,573 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 341 by building count (1 is largest). Within Connecticut alone, it ranks 183 of 214 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Connecticut on its state page.
Bridgeport and the insurance market
Bridgeport's moderate rating (22nd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
With 96.3% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Bridgeport gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Bridgeport's figures come from
Bridgeport's 22nd-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 Bridgeport's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.