Newport East, RI
Newport East wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Newport East at the 9th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 5,434 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Newport East at the 9th percentile, close to its 9th-percentile risk score.
Where Newport East's buildings actually sit
Most of Newport East's buildings (93.5% of 5,434) 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. At 5,434 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Newport East against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Newport East's 9th national percentile and its 9th percentile inside Rhode Island, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Newport East ranks 28,633 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,178 by building count (1 is largest). Within Rhode Island alone, it ranks 33 of 36 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Rhode Island on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Newport East
At the 9th national percentile, Newport East rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Newport East's 93.5% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Newport East's 28,633-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Newport East, see the exposure-zones guide.