Candlewood Shores, CT
Candlewood Shores wildfire risk explained
Candlewood Shores's 489 buildings earn a 32nd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (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 Shores at the 30th percentile, close to its 32nd-percentile risk score.
Candlewood Shores's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 18% of Candlewood Shores's 489 buildings carry Direct exposure and 2.5% carry Indirect; the remaining 79.6% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Candlewood Shores ranks
Candlewood Shores's 52nd-percentile standing inside Connecticut outpaces its 32nd national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Candlewood Shores ranks 21,483 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,542 by building count (1 is largest). Within Connecticut alone, it ranks 103 of 214 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Connecticut on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Candlewood Shores
Candlewood Shores's moderate rating (32nd 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
With 79.6% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Candlewood Shores gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 489 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Candlewood Shores. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Candlewood Shores, see the exposure-zones guide.