Eastport, ME
How exposed is Eastport to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Eastport lands at the 21st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 1,223 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Eastport at the 20th percentile, close to its 21st-percentile risk score.
Where Eastport's buildings actually sit
Eastport rates 74.8% Minimal exposure against just 23.3% Direct and 1.9% Indirect — of 1,223 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Eastport against the rest of the country
Eastport's 88th-percentile standing inside Maine outpaces its 21st national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Eastport ranks 25,058 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,514 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maine alone, it ranks 20 of 155 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maine on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Eastport's moderate wildfire rating (21st 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 Eastport
Eastport's 74.8% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Eastport's 25,058-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Eastport, see the exposure-zones guide.