Tariffville, CT
How exposed is Tariffville to wildfire?
Tariffville sits at the 28th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 494 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Tariffville at the 27th percentile, close to its 28th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Tariffville's buildings (57.7%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Where Tariffville ranks
Tariffville'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, Tariffville ranks 22,841 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,455 by building count (1 is largest). Within Connecticut alone, it ranks 146 of 214 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Connecticut on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Tariffville
Tariffville'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
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Tariffville (57.7% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Tariffville's 22,841-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Tariffville, see the exposure-zones guide.