Deerfield, MA
Deerfield wildfire risk explained
Deerfield sits at the 27th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 376 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Deerfield at the 25th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Deerfield's buildings actually sit
Of Deerfield's 376 counted buildings, 57.5% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Deerfield ranks
Compare Deerfield's two percentiles: 56th within Massachusetts, only 27th nationally — a gap of 30 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Deerfield ranks 23,101 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,739 by building count (1 is largest). Within Massachusetts alone, it ranks 109 of 248 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Massachusetts on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Deerfield
At the 27th national percentile, Deerfield rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Because Direct exposure dominates in Deerfield (57.5%), 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
Deerfield's 27th-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 Deerfield, see the exposure-zones guide.