Nahant, MA
Nahant wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Nahant at the 17th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 1,533 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Nahant's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 12th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 2.1% of Nahant's 1,533 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 97.9% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Nahant compares
Nahant's risk sits at a similar level relative to Massachusetts (11th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (17th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Nahant ranks 26,249 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,021 by building count (1 is largest). Within Massachusetts alone, it ranks 220 of 248 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Massachusetts on its state page.
Nahant and the insurance market
Nahant's low rating (17th 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 Nahant
With 97.9% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Nahant gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Nahant's 17th-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 Nahant, see the exposure-zones guide.