Taunton, MA
Taunton, MA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Taunton sits at the 18th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 20,512 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 Taunton at the 17th percentile, close to its 18th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Taunton's buildings (49.5%) 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. At 20,512 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Taunton ranks
Taunton scores 18th nationally and 14th within Massachusetts — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Taunton ranks 25,874 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 686 by building count (1 is largest). Within Massachusetts alone, it ranks 214 of 248 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Massachusetts on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Taunton
At the 18th national percentile, Taunton rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 49.5% of Taunton's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 20,512 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Taunton. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Taunton, see the exposure-zones guide.