Brooklyn, CT
Brooklyn wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Brooklyn at the 30th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 348 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Brooklyn's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 28th percentile nationally.
Brooklyn's building exposure, zone by zone
348 buildings are counted in Brooklyn, and 85.3% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
How Brooklyn compares
Brooklyn's risk sits at a similar level relative to Connecticut (44th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (30th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Brooklyn ranks 22,144 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,358 by building count (1 is largest). Within Connecticut alone, it ranks 120 of 214 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Connecticut on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Brooklyn
Brooklyn's moderate rating (30th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Brooklyn
With 85.3% of Brooklyn 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 Brooklyn's figures come from
Brooklyn's 30th-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 Brooklyn's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.