Central Falls, RI
Central Falls, RI's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Central Falls sits at the 12th 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 3,552 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Central Falls's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 10th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 99.9% of Central Falls's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 0.1% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Central Falls compares
Compare Central Falls's two percentiles: 29th within Rhode Island, only 12th nationally — a gap of 17 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Central Falls ranks 27,839 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,717 by building count (1 is largest). Within Rhode Island alone, it ranks 26 of 36 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Rhode Island on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Central Falls's low rating (12th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Central Falls
Even with 99.9% of Central Falls outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Central Falls's 12th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Central Falls, see the exposure-zones guide.