Pittsfield, NH
Pittsfield, NH's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Pittsfield at the 17th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 596 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Pittsfield at the 16th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Pittsfield's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Pittsfield's buildings (65.9%) 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 Pittsfield compares
Within New Hampshire, Pittsfield ranks higher (40th percentile) than it does nationally (17th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pittsfield ranks 26,257 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,893 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Hampshire alone, it ranks 60 of 100 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Hampshire on its state page.
Pittsfield and the insurance market
Pittsfield's low wildfire rating (17th 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
Pittsfield's 65.9% 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 Pittsfield's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Pittsfield's 26,257-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Pittsfield's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.