Newport Center, VT
Newport Center wildfire risk explained
Newport Center's 128 buildings earn a 14th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Newport Center at the 15th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Newport Center's building exposure, zone by zone
128 buildings are counted in Newport Center, and 57.8% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Where Newport Center ranks
Newport Center scores 14th nationally and 28th within Vermont — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Newport Center ranks 27,216 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,828 by building count (1 is largest). Within Vermont alone, it ranks 130 of 179 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Vermont on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Newport Center
Newport Center's low rating (14th 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
Newport Center's 57.8% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Newport Center's 14th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Newport Center, see the exposure-zones guide.