Mansfield Center, CT
How exposed is Mansfield Center to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Mansfield Center at the 30th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 534 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 Mansfield Center at the 28th percentile, close to its 30th-percentile risk score.
Where Mansfield Center's buildings actually sit
Of Mansfield Center's 534 counted buildings, 93.6% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Mansfield Center against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Mansfield Center's 30th national percentile and its 42nd percentile inside Connecticut, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mansfield Center ranks 22,176 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,809 by building count (1 is largest). Within Connecticut alone, it ranks 123 of 214 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Connecticut on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Mansfield Center
At the 30th national percentile, Mansfield Center 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 93.6% of Mansfield Center in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
Where Mansfield Center's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 534 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Mansfield Center. The exposure-zones guide covers what Mansfield Center's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.