Candlewood Isle, CT
Candlewood Isle wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Candlewood Isle at the 38th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 729 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Candlewood Isle at the 36th percentile, close to its 38th-percentile risk score.
Candlewood Isle's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 77.1% of Candlewood Isle's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 8% Indirect share and far above its 15% Minimal share — a profile where 562 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Candlewood Isle against the rest of the country
Within Connecticut, Candlewood Isle ranks higher (70th percentile) than it does nationally (38th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Candlewood Isle ranks 19,687 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,345 by building count (1 is largest). Within Connecticut alone, it ranks 66 of 214 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Connecticut on its state page.
Candlewood Isle and the insurance market
At the 38th national percentile, Candlewood Isle 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
With 77.1% of Candlewood Isle 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.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 729 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Candlewood Isle. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Candlewood Isle, see the exposure-zones guide.