West Warren, MA
How exposed is West Warren to wildfire?
West Warren's 341 buildings earn a 32nd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (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 Warren at the 30th percentile, close to its 32nd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
341 buildings are counted in West Warren, and 55.7% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 44.3% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
How West Warren compares
Within Massachusetts, West Warren ranks higher (86th percentile) than it does nationally (32nd) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, West Warren ranks 21,364 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,550 by building count (1 is largest). Within Massachusetts alone, it ranks 37 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
West Warren's moderate wildfire rating (32nd 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
Because 55.7% of West Warren's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where West Warren's figures come from
West Warren's 32nd-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 West Warren's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.