Wallingford Center, CT
Wallingford Center wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Wallingford Center lands at the 32nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 7,012 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Wallingford Center at the 31st national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Wallingford Center's building exposure, zone by zone
52.1% of Wallingford Center's 7,012 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 13% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 7,012 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Wallingford Center ranks
Compare Wallingford Center's two percentiles: 52nd within Connecticut, only 32nd nationally — a gap of 20 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wallingford Center ranks 21,484 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,457 by building count (1 is largest). Within Connecticut alone, it ranks 104 of 214 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Connecticut on its state page.
Wallingford Center and the insurance market
Wallingford Center's moderate wildfire rating (32nd 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 Wallingford Center
Even with 52.1% of Wallingford Center 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Wallingford Center's 21,484-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Wallingford Center, see the exposure-zones guide.