Compo, CT
Compo wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Compo at the 20th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 2,812 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Compo at the 21st national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Compo's buildings actually sit
67.8% of Compo's 2,812 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 32.3% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
How Compo compares
There's little gap between Compo's 20th national percentile and its 9th percentile inside Connecticut, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Compo ranks 25,140 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,736 by building count (1 is largest). Within Connecticut alone, it ranks 194 of 214 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Connecticut on its state page.
Compo and the insurance market
Compo's moderate rating (20th 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 Compo
Compo's 67.8% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Compo's 20th-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 Compo, see the exposure-zones guide.