Farmington, ME
Farmington, ME's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Farmington at the 6th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 1,428 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Farmington at the 7th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 56.4% of Farmington's 1,428 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 43.6% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Farmington compares
There's little gap between Farmington's 6th national percentile and its 0th percentile inside Maine, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Farmington ranks 29,533 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,486 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maine alone, it ranks 154 of 155 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maine on its state page.
Farmington and the insurance market
At the 6th national percentile, Farmington rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Farmington's 56.4% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,428 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Farmington. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Farmington, see the exposure-zones guide.