East Haven, CT
East Haven, CT's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores East Haven at the 28th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 10,691 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, East Haven's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 28th percentile nationally.
East Haven's building exposure, zone by zone
Indirect exposure is dominant in East Haven (50.9% of 10,691 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 14.7% sit in the Direct zone. At 10,691 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where East Haven ranks
East Haven's risk sits at a similar level relative to Connecticut (38th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (28th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, East Haven ranks 22,525 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,486 by building count (1 is largest). Within Connecticut alone, it ranks 133 of 214 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Connecticut on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
East Haven's moderate wildfire rating (28th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 50.9% of East Haven'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
East Haven's 28th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond East Haven, see the exposure-zones guide.