Pinehurst, MA
How exposed is Pinehurst to wildfire?
USFS scores Pinehurst at the 27th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 2,822 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 Pinehurst at the 23rd percentile, close to its 27th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 93.8% of Pinehurst's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 6.2% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Pinehurst compares
Within Massachusetts, Pinehurst ranks higher (55th percentile) than it does nationally (27th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pinehurst ranks 23,133 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,721 by building count (1 is largest). Within Massachusetts alone, it ranks 113 of 248 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Massachusetts on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Pinehurst
Pinehurst's moderate wildfire rating (27th 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 Pinehurst
Even with 93.8% of Pinehurst outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
Where Pinehurst's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Pinehurst's 23,133-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Pinehurst's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.