Wallingford, VT
Wallingford, VT's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Wallingford at the 19th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 463 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Wallingford at the 19th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Wallingford's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 64.8% of Wallingford's 463 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 35.2% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Wallingford against the rest of the country
Within Vermont, Wallingford ranks higher (87th percentile) than it does nationally (19th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wallingford ranks 25,639 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,020 by building count (1 is largest). Within Vermont alone, it ranks 28 of 179 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Vermont on its state page.
Wallingford and the insurance market
Wallingford's low rating (19th 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
Because 64.8% of Wallingford'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 463 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Wallingford. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Wallingford, see the exposure-zones guide.