Kensington, CT
How exposed is Kensington to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Kensington at the 33rd national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 4,685 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Kensington at the 32nd national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Kensington's building exposure, zone by zone
4,685 buildings are counted in Kensington, and 56.4% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 22.6% in Direct exposure or the 21% rated Minimal.
How Kensington compares
Within Connecticut, Kensington ranks higher (56th percentile) than it does nationally (33rd) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Kensington ranks 21,013 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,632 by building count (1 is largest). Within Connecticut alone, it ranks 95 of 214 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Connecticut on its state page.
Kensington and the insurance market
Kensington's moderate rating (33rd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Kensington
Because 56.4% of Kensington'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.
Where Kensington's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Kensington's 21,013-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Kensington's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.