South Royalton, VT
How exposed is South Royalton to wildfire?
South Royalton's 311 buildings earn a 18th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, South Royalton's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 18th percentile nationally.
South Royalton's building exposure, zone by zone
311 buildings are counted in South Royalton, and 51.1% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 48.9% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
South Royalton against the rest of the country
Compare South Royalton's two percentiles: 78th within Vermont, only 18th nationally — a gap of 60 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, South Royalton ranks 25,983 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,360 by building count (1 is largest). Within Vermont alone, it ranks 40 of 179 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Vermont on its state page.
South Royalton and the insurance market
At the 18th national percentile, South Royalton rates low 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
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in South Royalton (51.1% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
South Royalton's 18th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond South Royalton, see the exposure-zones guide.