Hockessin, DE
How exposed is Hockessin to wildfire?
Hockessin sits at the 23rd percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 5,040 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Hockessin at the 22nd percentile, close to its 23rd-percentile risk score.
Where Hockessin's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Hockessin: 68.5% of its 5,040 buildings, versus 19.4% Indirect and 12.1% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap. At 5,040 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Hockessin against the rest of the country
Hockessin's 23rd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 6th ranking inside Delaware does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 17 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hockessin ranks 24,165 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,407 by building count (1 is largest). Within Delaware alone, it ranks 73 of 79 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Delaware on its state page.
Hockessin and the insurance market
Hockessin's moderate wildfire rating (23rd 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 Hockessin
Hockessin's 68.5% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Hockessin's 24,165-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Hockessin, see the exposure-zones guide.