Nashua, NH
Nashua, NH's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Nashua at the 35th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 26,103 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Nashua's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 29th percentile nationally.
Nashua's building exposure, zone by zone
Nashua rates 60.8% Minimal exposure against just 5.8% Direct and 33.5% Indirect — of 26,103 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 26,103 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Nashua ranks
Nashua's 99th-percentile standing inside New Hampshire outpaces its 35th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Nashua ranks 20,640 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 477 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Hampshire alone, it ranks 2 of 100 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Hampshire on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Nashua
Nashua's moderate wildfire rating (35th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Nashua's 60.8% 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 Nashua's figures come from
Nashua's 35th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Nashua's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.