Websterville, VT
Websterville, VT's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Websterville at the 14th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 385 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Websterville at the 15th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Websterville's buildings actually sit
385 buildings are counted in Websterville, and 78.4% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Where Websterville ranks
Websterville's 37th-percentile standing inside Vermont outpaces its 14th 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, Websterville ranks 26,962 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,532 by building count (1 is largest). Within Vermont alone, it ranks 114 of 179 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Vermont on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 14th national percentile, Websterville 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
Websterville's 78.4% 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.
Where Websterville's figures come from
Websterville's 14th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Websterville's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.