Oronoque, CT
Oronoque wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Oronoque at the 26th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 1,196 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Oronoque at the 25th percentile, close to its 26th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 66.9% of Oronoque's 1,196 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 33.1% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where Oronoque ranks
Oronoque scores 26th nationally and 27th 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, Oronoque ranks 23,468 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,667 by building count (1 is largest). Within Connecticut alone, it ranks 157 of 214 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Connecticut on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Oronoque
Oronoque's moderate wildfire rating (26th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Oronoque's 66.9% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
Where Oronoque's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Oronoque's 23,468-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Oronoque's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.