Kittery Point, ME
Kittery Point, ME's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Kittery Point at the 25th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 797 actual buildings. (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 Point at the 21st percentile, close to its 25th-percentile risk score.
Kittery Point's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 80.1% of Kittery Point's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 14.7% Indirect share and far above its 5.3% Minimal share — a profile where 638 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Kittery Point against the rest of the country
Within Maine, Kittery Point ranks higher (92nd percentile) than it does nationally (25th) — 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 Point ranks 23,731 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,660 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maine alone, it ranks 13 of 155 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maine on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Kittery Point
At the 25th national percentile, Kittery Point rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Kittery Point
With 80.1% of Kittery Point in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Kittery Point's 23,731-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Kittery Point, see the exposure-zones guide.