Enfield, NH
How exposed is Enfield to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Enfield lands at the 17th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 890 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 Enfield at the 17th percentile, close to its 17th-percentile risk score.
Where Enfield's buildings actually sit
Of Enfield's 890 counted buildings, 67.8% carry Direct exposure and only 1.9% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Enfield compares
Within New Hampshire, Enfield ranks higher (44th percentile) than it does nationally (17th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Enfield ranks 26,166 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,814 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Hampshire alone, it ranks 56 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
Enfield's low wildfire rating (17th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because Direct exposure dominates in Enfield (67.8%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Enfield's 17th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Enfield, see the exposure-zones guide.