East Falmouth, MA
How exposed is East Falmouth to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts East Falmouth at the 21st national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 5,286 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks East Falmouth at the 15th national percentile — 6 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where East Falmouth's buildings actually sit
84.7% of East Falmouth's 5,286 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 9.5% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 5,286 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
East Falmouth against the rest of the country
East Falmouth scores 21st nationally and 24th within Massachusetts — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, East Falmouth ranks 25,024 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,266 by building count (1 is largest). Within Massachusetts alone, it ranks 189 of 248 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Massachusetts on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in East Falmouth
East Falmouth's moderate rating (21st percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
With 84.7% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, East Falmouth gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where East Falmouth's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind East Falmouth's 25,024-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what East Falmouth's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.