Fall River, MA
Fall River, MA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Fall River at the 24th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 22,833 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Fall River at the 21st percentile, close to its 24th-percentile risk score.
Fall River's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 4.2% of Fall River's 22,833 buildings carry Direct exposure and 20.8% carry Indirect; the remaining 75% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 22,833 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Fall River against the rest of the country
Fall River scores 24th nationally and 39th within Massachusetts — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Fall River ranks 23,948 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 582 by building count (1 is largest). Within Massachusetts alone, it ranks 151 of 248 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Massachusetts on its state page.
Fall River and the insurance market
Fall River's moderate wildfire rating (24th 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 Fall River
Even with 75% of Fall River outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 22,833 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Fall River. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Fall River, see the exposure-zones guide.