Quasset Lake, CT
Quasset Lake, CT's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Quasset Lake at the 26th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 145 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 Quasset Lake at the 24th percentile, close to its 26th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Quasset Lake: 72.4% of its 145 buildings, versus 22.8% Indirect and 4.8% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Quasset Lake against the rest of the country
Quasset Lake's risk sits at a similar level relative to Connecticut (26th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (26th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Quasset Lake ranks 23,469 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,066 by building count (1 is largest). Within Connecticut alone, it ranks 158 of 214 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Connecticut on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Quasset Lake
At the 26th national percentile, Quasset Lake rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Quasset Lake
Quasset Lake's 72.4% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Quasset Lake's 23,469-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Quasset Lake, see the exposure-zones guide.