Quonochontaug, RI
How exposed is Quonochontaug to wildfire?
USFS scores Quonochontaug at the 12th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 881 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Quonochontaug 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
Quonochontaug rates 62.9% Minimal exposure against just 21.3% Direct and 15.8% Indirect — of 881 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Quonochontaug compares
Quonochontaug's 37th-percentile standing inside Rhode Island outpaces its 12th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Quonochontaug ranks 27,687 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,905 by building count (1 is largest). Within Rhode Island alone, it ranks 23 of 36 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Rhode Island on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Quonochontaug's low wildfire rating (12th 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 Quonochontaug
Even with 62.9% of Quonochontaug outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 881 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Quonochontaug. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Quonochontaug, see the exposure-zones guide.