Canaan, NH
Canaan, NH's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Canaan at the 16th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 266 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Canaan at the 17th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Canaan's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Canaan's 266 counted buildings, 56.4% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Canaan compares
Within New Hampshire, Canaan ranks higher (38th percentile) than it does nationally (16th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Canaan ranks 26,346 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,637 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Hampshire alone, it ranks 63 of 100 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Hampshire on its state page.
Canaan and the insurance market
Canaan's low rating (16th 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
Because Direct exposure dominates in Canaan (56.4%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
Where Canaan's figures come from
Canaan's 16th-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 Canaan's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.