South Hooksett, NH
South Hooksett wildfire risk explained
South Hooksett's 2,244 buildings earn a 24th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, South Hooksett's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 20th percentile nationally.
South Hooksett's building exposure, zone by zone
Of South Hooksett's 2,244 counted buildings, 36.4% carry Direct exposure and only 34.6% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How South Hooksett compares
Within New Hampshire, South Hooksett ranks higher (78th percentile) than it does nationally (24th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, South Hooksett ranks 24,021 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,827 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Hampshire alone, it ranks 23 of 100 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Hampshire on its state page.
South Hooksett and the insurance market
At the 24th national percentile, South Hooksett rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
South Hooksett's 36.4% 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.
More on how this number was built
South Hooksett's 24th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond South Hooksett, see the exposure-zones guide.