Wareham Center, MA
How exposed is Wareham Center to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Wareham Center lands at the 17th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 2,018 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Wareham Center at the 13th national percentile — 4 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Wareham Center's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 3.9% of Wareham Center's 2,018 buildings carry Direct exposure and 7.2% carry Indirect; the remaining 88.9% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Wareham Center compares
There's little gap between Wareham Center's 17th national percentile and its 11th percentile inside Massachusetts, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wareham Center ranks 26,285 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,422 by building count (1 is largest). Within Massachusetts alone, it ranks 221 of 248 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Massachusetts on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 17th national percentile, Wareham Center rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Wareham Center's 88.9% 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.
Where Wareham Center's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 2,018 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Wareham Center. The exposure-zones guide covers what Wareham Center's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.