Fiskdale, MA
How exposed is Fiskdale to wildfire?
USFS scores Fiskdale at the 25th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 1,080 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 Fiskdale at the 23rd percentile, close to its 25th-percentile risk score.
Where Fiskdale's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 76.6% of Fiskdale's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 22.1% Indirect share and far above its 1.3% Minimal share — a profile where 827 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Fiskdale compares
Within Massachusetts, Fiskdale ranks higher (43rd percentile) than it does nationally (25th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Fiskdale ranks 23,668 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,406 by building count (1 is largest). Within Massachusetts alone, it ranks 141 of 248 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Massachusetts on its state page.
Fiskdale and the insurance market
At the 25th national percentile, Fiskdale rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Fiskdale
Fiskdale's 76.6% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Fiskdale's 23,668-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Fiskdale, see the exposure-zones guide.