East Douglas, MA
How exposed is East Douglas to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts East Douglas at the 34th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 1,055 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks East Douglas at the 31st national percentile — 3 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 61.4% of East Douglas's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 38.6% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 648 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
East Douglas against the rest of the country
Compare East Douglas's two percentiles: 89th within Massachusetts, only 34th nationally — a gap of 55 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, East Douglas ranks 20,702 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,568 by building count (1 is largest). Within Massachusetts alone, it ranks 28 of 248 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Massachusetts on its state page.
East Douglas and the insurance market
East Douglas's moderate rating (34th 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 East Douglas
With 61.4% of East Douglas in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
East Douglas's 34th-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 East Douglas, see the exposure-zones guide.