Brownville Junction, ME
Brownville Junction wildfire risk explained
Brownville Junction sits at the 7th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 426 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Brownville Junction at the 7th percentile, close to its 7th-percentile risk score.
Where Brownville Junction's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 72.3% of Brownville Junction's 426 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 27.7% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Brownville Junction against the rest of the country
Brownville Junction's risk sits at a similar level relative to Maine (18th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (7th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Brownville Junction ranks 29,218 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,731 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maine alone, it ranks 126 of 155 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maine on its state page.
Brownville Junction and the insurance market
Brownville Junction's low rating (7th 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
Brownville Junction's 72.3% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Brownville Junction's 7th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Brownville Junction, see the exposure-zones guide.