Wakefield-Peace Dale, RI
Wakefield-Peace Dale wildfire risk explained
Wakefield-Peace Dale's 3,763 buildings earn a 12th-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 Wakefield-Peace Dale at the 11th percentile, close to its 12th-percentile risk score.
Where Wakefield-Peace Dale's buildings actually sit
Only 25.1% of Wakefield-Peace Dale's 3,763 buildings carry Direct exposure and 27.1% carry Indirect; the remaining 47.9% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Wakefield-Peace Dale compares
Wakefield-Peace Dale's 34th-percentile standing inside Rhode Island outpaces its 12th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wakefield-Peace Dale ranks 27,750 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,461 by building count (1 is largest). Within Rhode Island alone, it ranks 24 of 36 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Rhode Island on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Wakefield-Peace Dale's low rating (12th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Wakefield-Peace Dale's 47.9% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Wakefield-Peace Dale'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 minimal exposure implies beyond Wakefield-Peace Dale, see the exposure-zones guide.