Wilton Center, CT
How exposed is Wilton Center to wildfire?
USFS scores Wilton Center at the 34th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 964 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Wilton Center's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 32nd percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
46.9% of Wilton Center's 964 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 452 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 46.9% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 6.2% are Minimal.
Where Wilton Center ranks
Within Connecticut, Wilton Center ranks higher (59th percentile) than it does nationally (34th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wilton Center ranks 20,821 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,194 by building count (1 is largest). Within Connecticut alone, it ranks 88 of 214 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Connecticut on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Wilton Center's moderate rating (34th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Wilton Center
Wilton Center's 46.9% 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.
More on how this number was built
Wilton Center's 34th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Wilton Center, see the exposure-zones guide.