North Hyde Park, VT
North Hyde Park, VT's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
North Hyde Park's 226 buildings earn a 12th-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 North Hyde Park at the 12th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 97.4% of North Hyde Park's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 2.7% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 220 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
North Hyde Park against the rest of the country
North Hyde Park's risk sits at a similar level relative to Vermont (8th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (12th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, North Hyde Park ranks 27,910 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,934 by building count (1 is largest). Within Vermont alone, it ranks 166 of 179 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Vermont on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
North Hyde Park's low wildfire rating (12th 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
North Hyde Park's 97.4% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 226 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for North Hyde Park. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond North Hyde Park, see the exposure-zones guide.