Middleborough Center, MA
How exposed is Middleborough Center to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Middleborough Center lands at the 19th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 2,510 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Middleborough Center at the 17th percentile, close to its 19th-percentile risk score.
Middleborough Center's building exposure, zone by zone
2,510 buildings are counted in Middleborough Center, and 49.2% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 15.1% in Direct exposure or the 35.7% rated Minimal.
Where Middleborough Center ranks
There's little gap between Middleborough Center's 19th national percentile and its 20th percentile inside Massachusetts, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Middleborough Center ranks 25,497 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,283 by building count (1 is largest). Within Massachusetts alone, it ranks 199 of 248 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Massachusetts on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Middleborough Center
At the 19th national percentile, Middleborough Center rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Middleborough Center (49.2% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 2,510 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Middleborough Center. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Middleborough Center, see the exposure-zones guide.