Henniker, NH
Henniker, NH's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Henniker lands at the 17th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 477 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Henniker at the 16th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Henniker's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Henniker's buildings (69.4%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
How Henniker compares
Compare Henniker's two percentiles: 39th within New Hampshire, only 17th nationally — a gap of 23 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Henniker ranks 26,320 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,761 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Hampshire alone, it ranks 61 of 100 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Hampshire on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Henniker
Henniker's low wildfire rating (17th 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 Henniker
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Henniker (69.4% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Henniker's 17th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Henniker, see the exposure-zones guide.