Kent Acres, DE
Kent Acres wildfire risk explained
Kent Acres's 1,008 buildings earn a 36th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Kent Acres at the 37th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Kent Acres's buildings actually sit
Kent Acres rates 75.3% Minimal exposure against just 24.7% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 1,008 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Kent Acres ranks
Kent Acres's risk sits at a similar level relative to Delaware (35th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (36th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Kent Acres ranks 20,034 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,877 by building count (1 is largest). Within Delaware alone, it ranks 52 of 79 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Delaware on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Kent Acres's moderate wildfire rating (36th 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 Kent Acres
Even with 75.3% of Kent Acres outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Kent Acres's 20,034-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Kent Acres, see the exposure-zones guide.