Hooksett, NH
How exposed is Hooksett to wildfire?
Hooksett sits at the 30th 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 1,556 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Hooksett's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 25th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
1,556 buildings are counted in Hooksett, and 72.4% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 27.2% in Direct exposure or the 0.4% rated Minimal.
How Hooksett compares
Compare Hooksett's two percentiles: 94th within New Hampshire, only 30th nationally — a gap of 64 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hooksett ranks 22,091 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,935 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Hampshire alone, it ranks 7 of 100 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Hampshire on its state page.
Hooksett and the insurance market
Hooksett's moderate rating (30th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Hooksett (72.4% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Hooksett's 22,091-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Hooksett, see the exposure-zones guide.