Madaket, MA
Madaket, MA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Madaket at the 28th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 754 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Madaket at the 22nd percentile, close to its 28th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Madaket rates 56.4% Minimal exposure against just 43.6% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 754 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Madaket against the rest of the country
Within Massachusetts, Madaket ranks higher (66th percentile) than it does nationally (28th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Madaket ranks 22,625 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,078 by building count (1 is largest). Within Massachusetts alone, it ranks 86 of 248 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Massachusetts on its state page.
Madaket and the insurance market
At the 28th national percentile, Madaket rates moderate 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
With 56.4% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Madaket gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Madaket's 28th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Madaket, see the exposure-zones guide.