East Merrimack, NH
East Merrimack wildfire risk explained
USFS scores East Merrimack at the 23rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 1,347 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks East Merrimack at the 20th 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
Most of East Merrimack's buildings (61.8%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Where East Merrimack ranks
Within New Hampshire, East Merrimack ranks higher (75th percentile) than it does nationally (23rd) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, East Merrimack ranks 24,300 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,849 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Hampshire alone, it ranks 26 of 100 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Hampshire on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
East Merrimack's moderate wildfire rating (23rd 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 East Merrimack
East Merrimack's 61.8% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind East Merrimack's 24,300-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond East Merrimack, see the exposure-zones guide.