Rehoboth Beach, DE
Rehoboth Beach, DE's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Rehoboth Beach at the 65th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 2,306 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Rehoboth Beach's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 58th percentile nationally.
Where Rehoboth Beach's buildings actually sit
2,306 buildings are counted in Rehoboth Beach, and 90.5% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 5.3% in Direct exposure or the 4.2% rated Minimal.
Rehoboth Beach against the rest of the country
Within Delaware, Rehoboth Beach ranks higher (96th percentile) than it does nationally (65th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Rehoboth Beach ranks 10,994 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,684 by building count (1 is largest). Within Delaware alone, it ranks 4 of 79 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Delaware on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Rehoboth Beach's 65th-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 90.5% of Rehoboth Beach'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 Rehoboth Beach's 10,994-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Rehoboth Beach, see the exposure-zones guide.