North Woodstock, NH
North Woodstock wildfire risk explained
North Woodstock's 466 buildings earn a 8th-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 Woodstock at the 8th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
North Woodstock's building exposure, zone by zone
466 buildings are counted in North Woodstock, and 68.9% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 31.1% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Where North Woodstock ranks
North Woodstock's risk sits at a similar level relative to New Hampshire (0th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (8th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, North Woodstock ranks 29,032 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,963 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Hampshire alone, it ranks 100 of 100 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Hampshire on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
North Woodstock's low wildfire rating (8th 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.
Hardening a home in North Woodstock
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in North Woodstock (68.9% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind North Woodstock's 29,032-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond North Woodstock, see the exposure-zones guide.