Rock Ridge, CT
How exposed is Rock Ridge to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Rock Ridge lands at the 30th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 645 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Rock Ridge at the 30th percentile, close to its 30th-percentile risk score.
Where Rock Ridge's buildings actually sit
Of Rock Ridge's 645 counted buildings, 99.8% carry Direct exposure and only 0.2% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Rock Ridge compares
Rock Ridge's risk sits at a similar level relative to Connecticut (43rd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (30th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Rock Ridge ranks 22,178 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,259 by building count (1 is largest). Within Connecticut alone, it ranks 125 of 214 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Connecticut on its state page.
Rock Ridge and the insurance market
Rock Ridge's moderate wildfire rating (30th 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 Rock Ridge
Rock Ridge's 99.8% 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.
Where Rock Ridge's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Rock Ridge's 22,178-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Rock Ridge's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.