Seconsett Island, MA
How exposed is Seconsett Island to wildfire?
Seconsett Island sits at the 23rd percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 158 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Seconsett Island's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 16th percentile nationally.
Seconsett Island's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 94.3% of Seconsett Island's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 5.7% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Seconsett Island against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Seconsett Island's 23rd national percentile and its 35th percentile inside Massachusetts, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Seconsett Island ranks 24,199 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,531 by building count (1 is largest). Within Massachusetts alone, it ranks 160 of 248 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Massachusetts on its state page.
Seconsett Island and the insurance market
Seconsett Island's moderate rating (23rd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 94.3% of Seconsett Island 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Seconsett Island's 24,199-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Seconsett Island, see the exposure-zones guide.