South Woodstock, CT
How exposed is South Woodstock to wildfire?
USFS scores South Woodstock at the 25th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 831 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks South Woodstock at the 23rd national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
South Woodstock's building exposure, zone by zone
831 buildings are counted in South Woodstock, and 74.9% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0.1% rated Minimal.
South Woodstock against the rest of the country
There's little gap between South Woodstock's 25th national percentile and its 24th percentile inside Connecticut, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, South Woodstock ranks 23,722 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,332 by building count (1 is largest). Within Connecticut alone, it ranks 162 of 214 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Connecticut on its state page.
South Woodstock and the insurance market
South Woodstock's moderate wildfire rating (25th 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
South Woodstock's 74.9% 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.
Where South Woodstock's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 831 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for South Woodstock. The exposure-zones guide covers what South Woodstock's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.