Madawaska, ME
Madawaska, ME's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Madawaska's 1,455 buildings earn a 9th-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 Madawaska at the 9th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Madawaska's building exposure, zone by zone
85.6% of Madawaska's 1,455 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 14.4% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Madawaska against the rest of the country
Within Maine, Madawaska ranks higher (38th percentile) than it does nationally (9th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Madawaska ranks 28,711 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,374 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maine alone, it ranks 96 of 155 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maine on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Madawaska
Madawaska'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.
What would actually reduce this score
Madawaska's 85.6% 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.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,455 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Madawaska. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Madawaska, see the exposure-zones guide.