Madison Center, CT
How exposed is Madison Center to wildfire?
USFS scores Madison Center 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 1,446 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Madison Center at the 29th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Madison Center's buildings actually sit
Madison Center rates 70.5% Minimal exposure against just 28.1% Direct and 1.4% Indirect — of 1,446 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Madison Center against the rest of the country
Madison Center scores 28th nationally and 35th within Connecticut — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Madison Center ranks 22,714 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,404 by building count (1 is largest). Within Connecticut alone, it ranks 139 of 214 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Connecticut on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Madison Center
Madison Center's moderate rating (28th 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
With 70.5% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Madison Center 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,446 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Madison Center. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Madison Center, see the exposure-zones guide.