Orono, ME
Orono, ME's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Orono's 2,144 buildings earn a 8th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Orono's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 8th percentile nationally.
Orono's building exposure, zone by zone
2,144 buildings are counted in Orono, and 49.4% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 1.5% rated Minimal.
How Orono compares
Orono's 31st-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, Orono ranks 28,875 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,084 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maine alone, it ranks 108 of 155 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maine on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Orono'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
Orono's 49.4% 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
Orono's 8th-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 Orono, see the exposure-zones guide.