Presque Isle, ME
How exposed is Presque Isle to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Presque Isle at the 13th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 5,249 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Presque Isle at the 12th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Indirect exposure is dominant in Presque Isle (58.7% of 5,249 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 38.4% sit in the Direct zone. At 5,249 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Presque Isle ranks
Within Maine, Presque Isle ranks higher (64th percentile) than it does nationally (13th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Presque Isle ranks 27,509 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,283 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maine alone, it ranks 57 of 155 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maine on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Presque Isle
Presque Isle's low wildfire rating (13th 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 Presque Isle
Because 58.7% of Presque Isle's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Presque Isle's 27,509-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Presque Isle, see the exposure-zones guide.