Groton, VT
How exposed is Groton to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Groton lands at the 16th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 257 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Groton at the 16th percentile, close to its 16th-percentile risk score.
Groton's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Groton's 257 counted buildings, 77.4% 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.
How Groton compares
Compare Groton's two percentiles: 50th within Vermont, only 16th nationally — a gap of 34 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Groton ranks 26,614 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,927 by building count (1 is largest). Within Vermont alone, it ranks 89 of 179 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Vermont on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Groton
Groton's low wildfire rating (16th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because Direct exposure dominates in Groton (77.4%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Groton's 26,614-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Groton, see the exposure-zones guide.