Chimney Point, CT
Chimney Point, CT's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Chimney Point lands at the 34th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 79 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 Chimney Point at the 32nd percentile, close to its 34th-percentile risk score.
Chimney Point's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 78.5% of Chimney Point's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 0% Indirect share and far above its 21.5% Minimal share — a profile where 62 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Where Chimney Point ranks
Chimney Point's 58th-percentile standing inside Connecticut outpaces its 34th 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, Chimney Point ranks 20,915 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,907 by building count (1 is largest). Within Connecticut alone, it ranks 90 of 214 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Connecticut on its state page.
Chimney Point and the insurance market
Chimney Point's moderate wildfire rating (34th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Chimney Point
Chimney Point's 78.5% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Chimney Point's 20,915-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Chimney Point, see the exposure-zones guide.