Orange, CT
How exposed is Orange to wildfire?
Orange's 6,129 buildings earn a 30th-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.)
Separately from the risk score above, Orange's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 29th percentile nationally.
Orange's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Orange: 57.9% of its 6,129 buildings, versus 6.4% Indirect and 35.8% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap. At 6,129 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Orange against the rest of the country
Orange scores 30th nationally and 42nd within Connecticut — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Orange ranks 22,177 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,828 by building count (1 is largest). Within Connecticut alone, it ranks 124 of 214 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Connecticut on its state page.
Orange and the insurance market
Orange's moderate wildfire rating (30th 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 Orange
Orange's 57.9% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Orange's 30th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Orange, see the exposure-zones guide.