Darien Downtown, CT
Darien Downtown, CT's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Darien Downtown's 1,051 buildings earn a 19th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Darien Downtown at the 20th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Darien Downtown's building exposure, zone by zone
86.8% of Darien Downtown's 1,051 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 13.2% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Darien Downtown against the rest of the country
Darien Downtown's risk sits at a similar level relative to Connecticut (7th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (19th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Darien Downtown ranks 25,486 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,589 by building count (1 is largest). Within Connecticut alone, it ranks 200 of 214 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Connecticut on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Darien Downtown
Darien Downtown's low wildfire rating (19th 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 Darien Downtown
Because 86.8% of Darien Downtown's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,051 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Darien Downtown. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Darien Downtown, see the exposure-zones guide.