Longmeadow, MA
Longmeadow, MA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Longmeadow's 6,424 buildings earn a 18th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Longmeadow at the 18th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Longmeadow's buildings actually sit
Longmeadow rates 61.7% Minimal exposure against just 38.2% Direct and 0.1% Indirect — of 6,424 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 6,424 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Longmeadow compares
Longmeadow's risk sits at a similar level relative to Massachusetts (16th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (18th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Longmeadow ranks 25,716 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,697 by building count (1 is largest). Within Massachusetts alone, it ranks 208 of 248 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Massachusetts on its state page.
Longmeadow and the insurance market
At the 18th national percentile, Longmeadow rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 61.7% of Longmeadow outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
Where Longmeadow's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 6,424 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Longmeadow. The exposure-zones guide covers what Longmeadow's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.