Kittery, ME
How exposed is Kittery to wildfire?
Kittery's 2,340 buildings earn a 17th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Kittery at the 14th percentile, close to its 17th-percentile risk score.
Where Kittery's buildings actually sit
Kittery rates 51.5% Minimal exposure against just 17.1% Direct and 31.5% Indirect — of 2,340 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Kittery compares
Within Maine, Kittery ranks higher (81st percentile) than it does nationally (17th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Kittery ranks 26,031 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,626 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maine alone, it ranks 31 of 155 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maine on its state page.
Kittery and the insurance market
Kittery's low rating (17th 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
Even with 51.5% of Kittery 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.
Where Kittery's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 2,340 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Kittery. The exposure-zones guide covers what Kittery's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.