Cumberland Center, ME
How exposed is Cumberland Center to wildfire?
Cumberland Center's 1,109 buildings earn a 16th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Cumberland Center at the 16th percentile, close to its 16th-percentile risk score.
Cumberland Center's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Cumberland Center: 62.2% of its 1,109 buildings, versus 37.8% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Cumberland Center compares
Compare Cumberland Center's two percentiles: 73rd within Maine, only 16th nationally — a gap of 58 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Cumberland Center ranks 26,627 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,223 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maine alone, it ranks 41 of 155 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maine on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Cumberland Center
Cumberland Center's low wildfire rating (16th 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 Cumberland Center
Because Direct exposure dominates in Cumberland Center (62.2%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Cumberland Center's 16th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Cumberland Center, see the exposure-zones guide.