Kenton, DE
Kenton, DE's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Kenton at the 33rd national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 159 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Kenton at the 34th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
159 buildings are counted in Kenton, and 52.8% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 47.2% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
How Kenton compares
Kenton's risk sits at a similar level relative to Delaware (26th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (33rd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Kenton ranks 21,014 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,472 by building count (1 is largest). Within Delaware alone, it ranks 59 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
Kenton'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.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Kenton (52.8% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Kenton's 21,014-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Kenton, see the exposure-zones guide.