Greenwich, CT
Greenwich wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Greenwich at the 29th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 7,571 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Greenwich's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 30th percentile nationally.
Where Greenwich's buildings actually sit
64.2% of Greenwich's 7,571 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 35.8% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 7,571 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Greenwich against the rest of the country
Greenwich scores 29th nationally and 40th within Connecticut — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Greenwich ranks 22,302 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,262 by building count (1 is largest). Within Connecticut alone, it ranks 128 of 214 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Connecticut on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Greenwich
At the 29th national percentile, Greenwich 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
Greenwich's 64.2% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Greenwich's 22,302-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Greenwich, see the exposure-zones guide.