Fairlee, VT
Fairlee, VT's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Fairlee's 160 buildings earn a 15th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Fairlee's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 15th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
160 buildings are counted in Fairlee, and 88.8% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 11.3% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Fairlee against the rest of the country
Within Vermont, Fairlee ranks higher (38th percentile) than it does nationally (15th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Fairlee ranks 26,903 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,460 by building count (1 is largest). Within Vermont alone, it ranks 111 of 179 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Vermont on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Fairlee
Fairlee's low rating (15th 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 Fairlee
Fairlee's 88.8% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Fairlee's 26,903-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Fairlee, see the exposure-zones guide.