Milford, DE
Milford, DE's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Milford at the 43rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 4,075 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Milford at the 39th national percentile — 4 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Milford rates 52.4% Minimal exposure against just 19% Direct and 28.5% Indirect — of 4,075 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Milford compares
Within Delaware, Milford ranks higher (60th percentile) than it does nationally (43rd) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Milford ranks 18,017 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,163 by building count (1 is largest). Within Delaware alone, it ranks 31 of 79 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Delaware on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Milford
At the 43rd national percentile, Milford rates elevated 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
Milford's 52.4% 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.
More on how this number was built
Milford's 43rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Milford, see the exposure-zones guide.