Greensboro Bend, VT
Greensboro Bend, VT's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Greensboro Bend's 167 buildings earn a 15th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Greensboro Bend's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 15th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Greensboro Bend's 167 counted buildings, 91.6% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Greensboro Bend ranks
Within Vermont, Greensboro Bend ranks higher (39th percentile) than it does nationally (15th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Greensboro Bend ranks 26,868 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,153 by building count (1 is largest). Within Vermont alone, it ranks 110 of 179 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Vermont on its state page.
Greensboro Bend and the insurance market
At the 15th national percentile, Greensboro Bend rates low 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 Greensboro Bend
Greensboro Bend's 91.6% 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
Greensboro Bend's 15th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Greensboro Bend, see the exposure-zones guide.