Brunswick, ME
How exposed is Brunswick to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Brunswick lands at the 8th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 6,801 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Brunswick at the 8th percentile, close to its 8th-percentile risk score.
Where Brunswick's buildings actually sit
Most of Brunswick's buildings (51.1%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone. At 6,801 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Brunswick ranks
Compare Brunswick's two percentiles: 31st within Maine, only 8th nationally — a gap of 23 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Brunswick ranks 28,873 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,543 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maine alone, it ranks 106 of 155 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maine on its state page.
Brunswick and the insurance market
Brunswick's low rating (8th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Brunswick (51.1% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 6,801 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Brunswick. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Brunswick, see the exposure-zones guide.