Farmington, DE
How exposed is Farmington to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Farmington at the 50th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 67 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Farmington at the 49th percentile, close to its 50th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
67 buildings are counted in Farmington, and 68.7% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 31.3% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Where Farmington ranks
Compare Farmington's two percentiles: 82nd within Delaware, only 50th nationally — a gap of 32 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Farmington ranks 15,843 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,376 by building count (1 is largest). Within Delaware alone, it ranks 15 of 79 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Delaware on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Farmington
Farmington's elevated rating (50th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Farmington's 68.7% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Farmington's 15,843-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Farmington, see the exposure-zones guide.