Framingham, MA
Framingham, MA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Framingham at the 34th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 19,031 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 Framingham at the 30th percentile, close to its 34th-percentile risk score.
Framingham's building exposure, zone by zone
Framingham rates 50.2% Minimal exposure against just 15.6% Direct and 34.2% Indirect — of 19,031 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 19,031 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Framingham ranks
Within Massachusetts, Framingham ranks higher (89th percentile) than it does nationally (34th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Framingham ranks 20,795 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 746 by building count (1 is largest). Within Massachusetts alone, it ranks 29 of 248 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Massachusetts on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Framingham
At the 34th national percentile, Framingham rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 50.2% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Framingham gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Framingham's 20,795-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Framingham, see the exposure-zones guide.