Vanceboro, ME
Vanceboro, ME's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Vanceboro's 136 buildings earn a 10th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Vanceboro at the 9th percentile, close to its 10th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
71.3% of Vanceboro's 136 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 97 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 28.7% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Where Vanceboro ranks
Compare Vanceboro's two percentiles: 46th within Maine, only 10th nationally — a gap of 36 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Vanceboro ranks 28,494 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,444 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maine alone, it ranks 85 of 155 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maine on its state page.
Vanceboro and the insurance market
Vanceboro's low rating (10th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Vanceboro's 71.3% 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
Vanceboro's 10th-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 Vanceboro, see the exposure-zones guide.