Weekapaug, RI
Weekapaug, RI's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Weekapaug at the 11th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 760 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Weekapaug at the 10th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Weekapaug rates 74.3% Minimal exposure against just 10.4% Direct and 15.3% Indirect — of 760 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Weekapaug compares
There's little gap between Weekapaug's 11th national percentile and its 20th percentile inside Rhode Island, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Weekapaug ranks 28,224 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,019 by building count (1 is largest). Within Rhode Island alone, it ranks 29 of 36 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Rhode Island on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Weekapaug
Weekapaug's low wildfire rating (11th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 74.3% of Weekapaug 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.
Where Weekapaug's figures come from
Weekapaug's 11th-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 Weekapaug's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.