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New Hampshire wildfire risk explained
USFS scores New Hampshire at the 1st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 149 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts New Hampshire at the 0th percentile, close to its 1st-percentile risk score.
New Hampshire's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of New Hampshire's buildings (86.6% of 149) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
New Hampshire against the rest of the country
New Hampshire's risk sits at a similar level relative to Ohio (2nd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (1st) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, New Hampshire ranks 31,376 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,922 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 1,232 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in New Hampshire
New Hampshire's low rating (1st percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
New Hampshire's 86.6% 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 New Hampshire's figures come from
New Hampshire's 1st-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 New Hampshire's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.