Old Town, ME
How exposed is Old Town to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Old Town at the 8th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 3,900 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Old Town's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 8th percentile nationally.
Old Town's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Old Town's buildings (54.4%) 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 Old Town compares
Old Town's 32nd-percentile standing inside Maine outpaces its 8th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Old Town ranks 28,874 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,340 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maine alone, it ranks 107 of 155 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maine on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Old Town
Old Town'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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 54.4% of Old Town'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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 3,900 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Old Town. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Old Town, see the exposure-zones guide.