West Springfield Town, MA
West Springfield Town wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, West Springfield Town lands at the 25th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 10,622 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts West Springfield Town at the 22nd percentile, close to its 25th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 50.4% of West Springfield Town's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 24.6% Direct and 25% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 10,622 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
West Springfield Town against the rest of the country
West Springfield Town's 42nd-percentile standing inside Massachusetts outpaces its 25th 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, West Springfield Town ranks 23,697 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,504 by building count (1 is largest). Within Massachusetts alone, it ranks 144 of 248 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Massachusetts on its state page.
West Springfield Town and the insurance market
West Springfield Town's moderate rating (25th 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
With 50.4% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, West Springfield Town gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
West Springfield Town's 25th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond West Springfield Town, see the exposure-zones guide.