Naugatuck, CT
Naugatuck, CT's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Naugatuck's 11,000 buildings earn a 44th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Naugatuck at the 42nd percentile, close to its 44th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 73.2% of Naugatuck's 11,000 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 26.6% Direct and 0.2% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to. At 11,000 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Naugatuck compares
Compare Naugatuck's two percentiles: 93rd within Connecticut, only 44th nationally — a gap of 50 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Naugatuck ranks 17,674 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,442 by building count (1 is largest). Within Connecticut alone, it ranks 17 of 214 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Connecticut on its state page.
Naugatuck and the insurance market
At the 44th national percentile, Naugatuck rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Naugatuck
Because 73.2% of Naugatuck's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Naugatuck's 44th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Naugatuck, see the exposure-zones guide.