Newmarket, NH
Newmarket wildfire risk explained
Newmarket's 1,431 buildings earn a 27th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Newmarket at the 25th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Newmarket's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Newmarket's buildings (63.3%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
How Newmarket compares
Within New Hampshire, Newmarket ranks higher (86th percentile) than it does nationally (27th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Newmarket ranks 22,942 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,473 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Hampshire alone, it ranks 15 of 100 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Hampshire on its state page.
Newmarket and the insurance market
Newmarket's moderate rating (27th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Newmarket's 63.3% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
Where Newmarket's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,431 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Newmarket. The exposure-zones guide covers what Newmarket's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.