East Sandwich, MA
East Sandwich, MA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
East Sandwich sits at the 28th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 2,555 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts East Sandwich at the 21st percentile, close to its 28th-percentile risk score.
East Sandwich's building exposure, zone by zone
Of East Sandwich's 2,555 counted buildings, 51.6% carry Direct exposure and only 17.2% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
East Sandwich against the rest of the country
Compare East Sandwich's two percentiles: 66th within Massachusetts, only 28th nationally — a gap of 38 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, East Sandwich ranks 22,624 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,187 by building count (1 is largest). Within Massachusetts alone, it ranks 85 of 248 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Massachusetts on its state page.
East Sandwich and the insurance market
East Sandwich'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
East Sandwich's 51.6% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind East Sandwich's 22,624-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond East Sandwich, see the exposure-zones guide.