Hanscom AFB, MA
Hanscom AFB, MA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Hanscom AFB at the 36th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 563 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Hanscom AFB at the 32nd national percentile — 4 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Hanscom AFB's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 1.2% of Hanscom AFB's 563 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 98.8% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Hanscom AFB ranks
Hanscom AFB's 92nd-percentile standing inside Massachusetts outpaces its 36th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hanscom AFB ranks 20,262 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,361 by building count (1 is largest). Within Massachusetts alone, it ranks 21 of 248 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Massachusetts on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Hanscom AFB
At the 36th national percentile, Hanscom AFB rates moderate 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 Hanscom AFB
With 98.8% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Hanscom AFB gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Hanscom AFB's 20,262-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Hanscom AFB, see the exposure-zones guide.