Hinsdale, NH
Hinsdale, NH's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Hinsdale's 711 buildings earn a 21st-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Hinsdale's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 19th percentile nationally.
Hinsdale's building exposure, zone by zone
Indirect exposure is dominant in Hinsdale (54.2% of 711 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 45.9% sit in the Direct zone.
Hinsdale against the rest of the country
Compare Hinsdale's two percentiles: 70th within New Hampshire, only 21st nationally — a gap of 49 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hinsdale ranks 24,933 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,550 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Hampshire alone, it ranks 31 of 100 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Hampshire on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Hinsdale
Hinsdale's moderate rating (21st percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Hinsdale's 54.2% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Hinsdale's 24,933-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Hinsdale, see the exposure-zones guide.