Springfield, MA
Springfield wildfire risk explained
Springfield's 46,235 buildings earn a 15th-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, Springfield's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 13th percentile nationally.
Where Springfield's buildings actually sit
Springfield rates 92% Minimal exposure against just 6.7% Direct and 1.3% Indirect — of 46,235 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 46,235 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Springfield against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Springfield's 15th national percentile and its 6th percentile inside Massachusetts, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Springfield ranks 26,852 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 199 by building count (1 is largest). Within Massachusetts alone, it ranks 234 of 248 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Massachusetts on its state page.
Springfield and the insurance market
Springfield's low rating (15th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 92% of Springfield outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Springfield's 15th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Springfield, see the exposure-zones guide.