Teaticket, MA
Teaticket, MA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Teaticket at the 15th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 1,556 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Teaticket at the 11th national percentile — 4 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Teaticket's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 2.2% of Teaticket's 1,556 buildings carry Direct exposure and 19.2% carry Indirect; the remaining 78.7% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Teaticket ranks
Teaticket's risk sits at a similar level relative to Massachusetts (7th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (15th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Teaticket ranks 26,725 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,934 by building count (1 is largest). Within Massachusetts alone, it ranks 232 of 248 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Massachusetts on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Teaticket's low wildfire rating (15th 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.
Hardening a home in Teaticket
Even with 78.7% of Teaticket 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.
Where Teaticket's figures come from
Teaticket's 15th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Teaticket's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.