Millinocket, ME
Millinocket wildfire risk explained
Millinocket sits at the 10th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 2,943 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Millinocket at the 10th percentile, close to its 10th-percentile risk score.
Millinocket's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 86.1% of Millinocket's 2,943 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 13.9% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where Millinocket ranks
Compare Millinocket's two percentiles: 50th within Maine, only 10th nationally — a gap of 40 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Millinocket ranks 28,371 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,525 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maine alone, it ranks 80 of 155 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maine on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Millinocket
Millinocket's low rating (10th 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 Millinocket
Millinocket's 86.1% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
Where Millinocket's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Millinocket's 28,371-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Millinocket's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.