Veazie, ME
Veazie wildfire risk explained
Veazie's 900 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.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Veazie at the 10th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Veazie's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Veazie's buildings (52.4%) 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.
Veazie against the rest of the country
Compare Veazie's two percentiles: 47th within Maine, only 10th nationally — a gap of 38 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Veazie ranks 28,397 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,720 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maine alone, it ranks 82 of 155 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maine on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Veazie
At the 10th national percentile, Veazie rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Veazie
Because 52.4% of Veazie'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 900 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Veazie. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Veazie, see the exposure-zones guide.