Knollcrest, CT
Knollcrest, CT's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Knollcrest's 358 buildings earn a 43rd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Knollcrest at the 42nd national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Knollcrest's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Knollcrest's buildings (47.2%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Knollcrest against the rest of the country
Knollcrest's 92nd-percentile standing inside Connecticut outpaces its 43rd national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Knollcrest ranks 17,830 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,106 by building count (1 is largest). Within Connecticut alone, it ranks 18 of 214 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Connecticut on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Knollcrest's elevated rating (43rd 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
Because 47.2% of Knollcrest's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Knollcrest's 17,830-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Knollcrest, see the exposure-zones guide.