Kennebunkport, ME
How exposed is Kennebunkport to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Kennebunkport lands at the 23rd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 1,186 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Kennebunkport at the 22nd percentile, close to its 23rd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
1,186 buildings are counted in Kennebunkport, and 66.1% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 13.8% rated Minimal.
Where Kennebunkport ranks
Within Maine, Kennebunkport ranks higher (91st percentile) than it does nationally (23rd) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Kennebunkport ranks 24,230 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,730 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maine alone, it ranks 15 of 155 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maine on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Kennebunkport
Kennebunkport'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 Kennebunkport
With 66.1% of Kennebunkport 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Kennebunkport's 24,230-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Kennebunkport, see the exposure-zones guide.