Brockton, MA
Brockton wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Brockton at the 21st national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 26,375 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Brockton at the 18th national percentile — 2 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
Only 4.9% of Brockton's 26,375 buildings carry Direct exposure and 35% carry Indirect; the remaining 60.1% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 26,375 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Brockton ranks
Brockton scores 21st nationally and 24th 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, Brockton ranks 25,023 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 468 by building count (1 is largest). Within Massachusetts alone, it ranks 188 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 21st national percentile, Brockton rates moderate 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
Brockton's 60.1% 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.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 26,375 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Brockton. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Brockton, see the exposure-zones guide.