Henlopen Acres, DE
Henlopen Acres wildfire risk explained
Henlopen Acres's 202 buildings earn a 50th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Henlopen Acres at the 44th national percentile — 5 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Henlopen Acres's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 57.9% of Henlopen Acres's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 42.1% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 117 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Henlopen Acres compares
Within Delaware, Henlopen Acres ranks higher (81st percentile) than it does nationally (50th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Henlopen Acres ranks 15,876 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,758 by building count (1 is largest). Within Delaware alone, it ranks 16 of 79 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Delaware on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 50th national percentile, Henlopen Acres rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
With 57.9% of Henlopen Acres in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Henlopen Acres's 15,876-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Henlopen Acres, see the exposure-zones guide.