Bridgewater Town, MA
Bridgewater Town, MA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Bridgewater Town lands at the 18th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 8,792 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Bridgewater Town at the 17th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
52.6% of Bridgewater Town's 8,792 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 4,622 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 23.8% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 23.7% are Minimal. At 8,792 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Bridgewater Town compares
Bridgewater Town scores 18th nationally and 15th within Massachusetts — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bridgewater Town ranks 25,814 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,897 by building count (1 is largest). Within Massachusetts alone, it ranks 210 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
Bridgewater Town's low wildfire rating (18th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 52.6% of Bridgewater Town in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
Where Bridgewater Town's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Bridgewater Town's 25,814-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Bridgewater Town's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.