Newington, CT
Newington, CT's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Newington at the 21st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 11,151 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Newington's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 22nd percentile nationally.
Newington's building exposure, zone by zone
Newington rates 84.1% Minimal exposure against just 10.8% Direct and 5.2% Indirect — of 11,151 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 11,151 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Newington compares
Newington scores 21st nationally and 13th within Connecticut — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Newington ranks 24,761 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,420 by building count (1 is largest). Within Connecticut alone, it ranks 186 of 214 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Connecticut on its state page.
Newington and the insurance market
Newington's moderate wildfire rating (21st 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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 84.1% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Newington gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Newington's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Newington's 24,761-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Newington's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.