Long Hill (Greater Bridgeport Planning), CT
Long Hill (Greater Bridgeport Planning), CT's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Long Hill (Greater Bridgeport Planning) at the 27th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 2,895 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 Long Hill (Greater Bridgeport Planning) at the 27th percentile, close to its 27th-percentile risk score.
Where Long Hill (Greater Bridgeport Planning)'s buildings actually sit
USFS puts 69.6% of Long Hill (Greater Bridgeport Planning)'s 2,895 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 28.1% Direct and 2.3% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Long Hill (Greater Bridgeport Planning) against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Long Hill (Greater Bridgeport Planning)'s 27th national percentile and its 32nd percentile inside Connecticut, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Long Hill (Greater Bridgeport Planning) ranks 22,871 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,592 by building count (1 is largest). Within Connecticut alone, it ranks 147 of 214 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Connecticut on its state page.
Long Hill (Greater Bridgeport Planning) and the insurance market
Long Hill (Greater Bridgeport Planning)'s moderate rating (27th 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 Long Hill (Greater Bridgeport Planning)
Long Hill (Greater Bridgeport Planning)'s 69.6% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
Where Long Hill (Greater Bridgeport Planning)'s figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Long Hill (Greater Bridgeport Planning)'s 22,871-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Long Hill (Greater Bridgeport Planning)'s dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.