Island Falls, ME
Island Falls wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Island Falls at the 15th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 314 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Island Falls at the 14th percentile, close to its 15th-percentile risk score.
Island Falls's building exposure, zone by zone
314 buildings are counted in Island Falls, and 62.4% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Where Island Falls ranks
Compare Island Falls's two percentiles: 71st within Maine, only 15th nationally — a gap of 56 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Island Falls ranks 26,884 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,249 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maine alone, it ranks 46 of 155 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maine on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Island Falls
Island Falls's low wildfire rating (15th 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 Island Falls
With 62.4% of Island Falls 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 314 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Island Falls. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Island Falls, see the exposure-zones guide.