Cranston, RI
Cranston, RI's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Cranston at the 19th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 29,566 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Cranston's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 16th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 88.7% of Cranston's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 5.8% Direct and 5.5% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 29,566 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Cranston ranks
Compare Cranston's two percentiles: 60th within Rhode Island, only 19th nationally — a gap of 41 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Cranston ranks 25,635 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 391 by building count (1 is largest). Within Rhode Island alone, it ranks 15 of 36 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Rhode Island on its state page.
Cranston and the insurance market
Cranston's low rating (19th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 88.7% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Cranston gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Cranston's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 29,566 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Cranston. The exposure-zones guide covers what Cranston's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.