WildfireRiskFinder

East Village, CT

East Village, CT's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers

Moderate
40thpercentile nationally

East Village's 1,693 buildings earn a 40th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)

Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks East Village at the 38th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.

Where East Village's buildings actually sit

1,693Total buildings
93.7%Direct exposure
6%Indirect exposure
0.3%Minimal exposure

USFS classifies 93.7% of East Village's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 6% Indirect share and far above its 0.3% Minimal share — a profile where 1,587 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.

East Village against the rest of the country

Compare East Village's two percentiles: 77th within Connecticut, only 40th 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 Village ranks 19,056 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,441 by building count (1 is largest). Within Connecticut alone, it ranks 50 of 214 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Connecticut on its state page.

East Village and the insurance market

East Village's moderate rating (40th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.

Hardening a home in East Village

East Village's 93.7% 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

The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,693 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for East Village. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond East Village, see the exposure-zones guide.