Whitinsville, MA
Whitinsville, MA's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Whitinsville at the 31st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 1,985 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Whitinsville at the 29th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Whitinsville's buildings actually sit
Indirect exposure is dominant in Whitinsville (57.4% of 1,985 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 42.5% sit in the Direct zone.
How Whitinsville compares
Whitinsville's 83rd-percentile standing inside Massachusetts outpaces its 31st 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, Whitinsville ranks 21,652 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,518 by building count (1 is largest). Within Massachusetts alone, it ranks 43 of 248 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Massachusetts on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Whitinsville
Whitinsville's moderate rating (31st 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
Because 57.4% of Whitinsville'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 Whitinsville's figures come from
Whitinsville's 31st-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 Whitinsville's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.