Quincy, MA
Quincy wildfire risk explained
Quincy's 23,789 buildings earn a 31st-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Quincy at the 27th percentile, close to its 31st-percentile risk score.
Where Quincy's buildings actually sit
Only 0.6% of Quincy's 23,789 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 99.4% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 23,789 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Quincy compares
Within Massachusetts, Quincy ranks higher (82nd percentile) than it does nationally (31st) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Quincy ranks 21,681 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 540 by building count (1 is largest). Within Massachusetts alone, it ranks 45 of 248 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Massachusetts on its state page.
Quincy and the insurance market
Quincy's moderate rating (31st percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Quincy's 99.4% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where Quincy's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 23,789 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Quincy. The exposure-zones guide covers what Quincy's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.