Suffield Depot, CT
How exposed is Suffield Depot to wildfire?
Suffield Depot's 656 buildings earn a 28th-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.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Suffield Depot at the 27th percentile, close to its 28th-percentile risk score.
Where Suffield Depot's buildings actually sit
656 buildings are counted in Suffield Depot, and 77% 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% rated Minimal.
How Suffield Depot compares
Suffield Depot's risk sits at a similar level relative to Connecticut (32nd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (28th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Suffield Depot ranks 22,776 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,111 by building count (1 is largest). Within Connecticut alone, it ranks 145 of 214 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Connecticut on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Suffield Depot's moderate wildfire rating (28th 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
Suffield Depot's 77% 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
Suffield Depot's 28th-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 Suffield Depot, see the exposure-zones guide.