Wauregan, CT
Wauregan wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Wauregan at the 28th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 612 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Wauregan at the 25th national percentile — 3 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Wauregan's building exposure, zone by zone
60.6% of Wauregan's 612 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 371 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 39.4% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Where Wauregan ranks
Wauregan scores 28th nationally and 34th within Connecticut — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wauregan ranks 22,748 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,666 by building count (1 is largest). Within Connecticut alone, it ranks 144 of 214 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Connecticut on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Wauregan
Wauregan's moderate wildfire rating (28th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Wauregan's 60.6% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Wauregan's 22,748-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Wauregan, see the exposure-zones guide.