Northeast Harbor, ME
How exposed is Northeast Harbor to wildfire?
Northeast Harbor's 584 buildings earn a 18th-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 Northeast Harbor at the 18th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Northeast Harbor's building exposure, zone by zone
68.5% of Northeast Harbor's 584 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 27.4% Direct and 4.1% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Northeast Harbor against the rest of the country
Within Maine, Northeast Harbor ranks higher (84th percentile) than it does nationally (18th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Northeast Harbor ranks 25,714 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,049 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maine alone, it ranks 25 of 155 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maine on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Northeast Harbor
Northeast Harbor's low wildfire rating (18th 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 Northeast Harbor
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Northeast Harbor (68.5% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
Where Northeast Harbor's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Northeast Harbor's 25,714-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Northeast Harbor's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.