East Providence, RI
East Providence, RI's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores East Providence at the 10th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 18,204 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 Providence at the 9th national percentile — 1 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 92.8% of East Providence's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 1.6% Direct and 5.6% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 18,204 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 Providence ranks
East Providence scores 10th nationally and 14th within Rhode Island — 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 Providence ranks 28,414 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 783 by building count (1 is largest). Within Rhode Island alone, it ranks 31 of 36 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Rhode Island on its state page.
East Providence and the insurance market
East Providence's low rating (10th 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
East Providence's 92.8% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where East Providence's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 18,204 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for East Providence. The exposure-zones guide covers what East Providence's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.