Jonesport, ME
Jonesport, ME's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Jonesport lands at the 37th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 612 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Jonesport at the 36th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Jonesport's buildings (63.6%) 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.
Jonesport against the rest of the country
Compare Jonesport's two percentiles: 99th within Maine, only 37th nationally — a gap of 63 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Jonesport ranks 19,944 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,669 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maine alone, it ranks 2 of 155 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maine on its state page.
Jonesport and the insurance market
Jonesport's moderate rating (37th 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
Because 63.6% of Jonesport's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Jonesport's 19,944-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Jonesport, see the exposure-zones guide.