Kingfield, ME
Kingfield wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Kingfield lands at the 7th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 610 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 Kingfield at the 7th percentile, close to its 7th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
610 buildings are counted in Kingfield, and 64.4% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Kingfield against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Kingfield's 7th national percentile and its 18th percentile inside Maine, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Kingfield ranks 29,220 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,693 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maine alone, it ranks 128 of 155 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maine on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Kingfield's low wildfire rating (7th 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 Kingfield
Because Direct exposure dominates in Kingfield (64.4%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Kingfield's 7th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Kingfield, see the exposure-zones guide.