Simsbury Center, CT
Simsbury Center, CT's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Simsbury Center at the 33rd national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 2,501 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Simsbury Center at the 31st national percentile — 2 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
Of Simsbury Center's 2,501 counted buildings, 61.2% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Simsbury Center compares
Within Connecticut, Simsbury Center ranks higher (55th percentile) than it does nationally (33rd) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Simsbury Center ranks 21,169 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,294 by building count (1 is largest). Within Connecticut alone, it ranks 98 of 214 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Connecticut on its state page.
Simsbury Center and the insurance market
Simsbury Center's moderate wildfire rating (33rd 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 61.2% of Simsbury Center in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
Where Simsbury Center's figures come from
Simsbury Center's 33rd-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 Simsbury Center's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.