Thomaston, ME
Thomaston wildfire risk explained
Thomaston sits at the 12th 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 1,002 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Thomaston at the 11th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Thomaston's buildings actually sit
Most of Thomaston's buildings (73%) 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.
Thomaston against the rest of the country
Compare Thomaston's two percentiles: 57th within Maine, only 12th nationally — a gap of 45 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Thomaston ranks 27,832 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,918 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maine alone, it ranks 67 of 155 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maine on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Thomaston
Thomaston's low wildfire rating (12th 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 Thomaston
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Thomaston (73% 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
Thomaston's 12th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Thomaston, see the exposure-zones guide.