Little Creek, DE
Little Creek, DE's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Little Creek at the 55th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 127 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Little Creek at the 51st national percentile — 5 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Little Creek's building exposure, zone by zone
127 buildings are counted in Little Creek, and 81.9% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 18.1% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
How Little Creek compares
Compare Little Creek's two percentiles: 91st within Delaware, only 55th nationally — a gap of 36 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Little Creek ranks 14,079 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,843 by building count (1 is largest). Within Delaware alone, it ranks 8 of 79 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Delaware on its state page.
Little Creek and the insurance market
Little Creek's elevated rating (55th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 81.9% of Little Creek'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 Little Creek's 14,079-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Little Creek, see the exposure-zones guide.