Selbyville, DE
Selbyville, DE's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Selbyville at the 39th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 1,587 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Selbyville at the 37th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Selbyville's buildings actually sit
Most of Selbyville's buildings (40%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Where Selbyville ranks
There's little gap between Selbyville's 39th national percentile and its 39th percentile inside Delaware, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Selbyville ranks 19,276 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,806 by building count (1 is largest). Within Delaware alone, it ranks 49 of 79 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Delaware on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Selbyville
Selbyville's moderate wildfire rating (39th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 40% of Selbyville'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.
Where Selbyville's figures come from
Selbyville's 39th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Selbyville's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.