Quechee, VT
How exposed is Quechee to wildfire?
Quechee's 411 buildings earn a 14th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Quechee at the 15th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Quechee's buildings actually sit
78.4% of Quechee's 411 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 322 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 21.7% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Quechee against the rest of the country
Compare Quechee's two percentiles: 34th within Vermont, only 14th nationally — a gap of 20 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Quechee ranks 27,058 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,025 by building count (1 is largest). Within Vermont alone, it ranks 119 of 179 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Vermont on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Quechee
At the 14th national percentile, Quechee rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
With 78.4% of Quechee in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Quechee's 14th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Quechee, see the exposure-zones guide.