Ocean Bluff-Brant Rock, MA
Ocean Bluff-Brant Rock wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Ocean Bluff-Brant Rock at the 16th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 2,982 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Ocean Bluff-Brant Rock at the 13th percentile, close to its 16th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Ocean Bluff-Brant Rock's buildings (90.5%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
How Ocean Bluff-Brant Rock compares
There's little gap between Ocean Bluff-Brant Rock's 16th national percentile and its 9th percentile inside Massachusetts, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Ocean Bluff-Brant Rock ranks 26,533 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,464 by building count (1 is largest). Within Massachusetts alone, it ranks 226 of 248 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Massachusetts on its state page.
Ocean Bluff-Brant Rock and the insurance market
Ocean Bluff-Brant Rock's low rating (16th 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 90.5% of Ocean Bluff-Brant Rock's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Ocean Bluff-Brant Rock's 26,533-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Ocean Bluff-Brant Rock, see the exposure-zones guide.