Glastonbury Center, CT
How exposed is Glastonbury Center to wildfire?
USFS scores Glastonbury Center at the 28th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 3,269 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Glastonbury Center at the 26th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Glastonbury Center's building exposure, zone by zone
42.4% of Glastonbury Center's 3,269 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 1,387 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 20.5% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 37% are Minimal.
How Glastonbury Center compares
Glastonbury Center's risk sits at a similar level relative to Connecticut (33rd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (28th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Glastonbury Center ranks 22,746 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,081 by building count (1 is largest). Within Connecticut alone, it ranks 142 of 214 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Connecticut on its state page.
Glastonbury Center and the insurance market
Glastonbury Center's moderate wildfire rating (28th 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 Glastonbury Center
Glastonbury Center's 42.4% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 3,269 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Glastonbury Center. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Glastonbury Center, see the exposure-zones guide.