Littlejohn Island, ME
How exposed is Littlejohn Island to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Littlejohn Island at the 9th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 93 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Littlejohn Island's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 7th percentile nationally.
Littlejohn Island's building exposure, zone by zone
93 buildings are counted in Littlejohn Island, and 83.9% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 16.1% rated Minimal.
Littlejohn Island against the rest of the country
Littlejohn Island's 34th-percentile standing inside Maine outpaces its 9th 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, Littlejohn Island ranks 28,808 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,352 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maine alone, it ranks 103 of 155 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maine on its state page.
Littlejohn Island and the insurance market
Littlejohn Island's low rating (9th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Littlejohn Island
Littlejohn Island's 83.9% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Littlejohn Island's 28,808-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Littlejohn Island, see the exposure-zones guide.