Green Harbor, MA
How exposed is Green Harbor to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Green Harbor lands at the 17th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 384 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Green Harbor at the 14th national percentile — 3 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Green Harbor's buildings actually sit
70.1% of Green Harbor's 384 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 14.1% Direct and 15.9% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Green Harbor against the rest of the country
Green Harbor scores 17th nationally and 13th within Massachusetts — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Green Harbor ranks 26,096 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,546 by building count (1 is largest). Within Massachusetts alone, it ranks 217 of 248 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Massachusetts on its state page.
Green Harbor and the insurance market
Green Harbor's low rating (17th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Green Harbor
Because 70.1% of Green Harbor's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 384 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Green Harbor. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Green Harbor, see the exposure-zones guide.