Lebanon, NH
Lebanon wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Lebanon at the 15th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 5,419 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 Lebanon at the 15th percentile, close to its 15th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
5,419 buildings are counted in Lebanon, and 59.8% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 40% in Direct exposure or the 0.3% rated Minimal. At 5,419 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Lebanon compares
There's little gap between Lebanon's 15th national percentile and its 14th percentile inside New Hampshire, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lebanon ranks 26,895 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,189 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Hampshire alone, it ranks 88 of 100 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Hampshire on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Lebanon
Lebanon's low wildfire rating (15th 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 Lebanon
Because 59.8% of Lebanon'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 Lebanon's 26,895-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Lebanon, see the exposure-zones guide.