Fair Haven, VT
Fair Haven, VT's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Fair Haven's 1,193 buildings earn a 22nd-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 Fair Haven at the 22nd national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Fair Haven's buildings actually sit
1,193 buildings are counted in Fair Haven, and 75.7% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 24.3% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Where Fair Haven ranks
Fair Haven's 95th-percentile standing inside Vermont outpaces its 22nd 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, Fair Haven ranks 24,689 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,693 by building count (1 is largest). Within Vermont alone, it ranks 10 of 179 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Vermont on its state page.
Fair Haven and the insurance market
Fair Haven's moderate rating (22nd 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
Fair Haven's 75.7% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
Where Fair Haven's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Fair Haven's 24,689-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Fair Haven's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.