Mashpee Neck, MA
Mashpee Neck wildfire risk explained
Mashpee Neck's 718 buildings earn a 26th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Mashpee Neck at the 18th percentile, close to its 26th-percentile risk score.
Where Mashpee Neck's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 84.7% of Mashpee Neck's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 15.3% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Mashpee Neck against the rest of the country
Compare Mashpee Neck's two percentiles: 49th within Massachusetts, only 26th nationally — a gap of 23 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mashpee Neck ranks 23,359 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,480 by building count (1 is largest). Within Massachusetts alone, it ranks 127 of 248 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Massachusetts on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Mashpee Neck
Mashpee Neck's moderate rating (26th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Mashpee Neck
Mashpee Neck's 84.7% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where Mashpee Neck's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 718 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Mashpee Neck. The exposure-zones guide covers what Mashpee Neck's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.