Greenwood, DE
Greenwood, DE's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Greenwood at the 40th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 491 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 Greenwood at the 40th percentile, close to its 40th-percentile risk score.
Greenwood's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 63.5% of Greenwood's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 25.3% Direct and 11.2% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Greenwood ranks
Greenwood scores 40th nationally and 49th within Delaware — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Greenwood ranks 18,866 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,508 by building count (1 is largest). Within Delaware alone, it ranks 41 of 79 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Delaware on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Greenwood
Greenwood's elevated wildfire rating (40th 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 Greenwood
Even with 63.5% of Greenwood outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Greenwood's 18,866-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Greenwood, see the exposure-zones guide.