North Scituate, MA
North Scituate wildfire risk explained
North Scituate's 2,291 buildings earn a 26th-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.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts North Scituate at the 23rd percentile, close to its 26th-percentile risk score.
Where North Scituate's buildings actually sit
Of North Scituate's 2,291 counted buildings, 49.7% carry Direct exposure and only 49.4% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where North Scituate ranks
Compare North Scituate's two percentiles: 52nd within Massachusetts, only 26th nationally — a gap of 26 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, North Scituate ranks 23,259 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,721 by building count (1 is largest). Within Massachusetts alone, it ranks 121 of 248 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Massachusetts on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in North Scituate
North Scituate's moderate rating (26th 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
Because Direct exposure dominates in North Scituate (49.7%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 2,291 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for North Scituate. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond North Scituate, see the exposure-zones guide.