Norwalk, CT
How exposed is Norwalk to wildfire?
Norwalk's 44,157 buildings earn a 25th-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.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Norwalk at the 25th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Norwalk's buildings actually sit
Norwalk rates 80.7% Minimal exposure against just 19.3% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 44,157 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 44,157 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Norwalk compares
There's little gap between Norwalk's 25th national percentile and its 26th percentile inside Connecticut, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Norwalk ranks 23,503 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 210 by building count (1 is largest). Within Connecticut alone, it ranks 159 of 214 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Connecticut on its state page.
Norwalk and the insurance market
At the 25th national percentile, Norwalk rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Norwalk's 80.7% 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.
Where Norwalk's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 44,157 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Norwalk. The exposure-zones guide covers what Norwalk's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.