Windsor, VT
How exposed is Windsor to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Windsor lands at the 16th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 796 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 Windsor at the 17th percentile, close to its 16th-percentile risk score.
Windsor's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Windsor's buildings (83.8%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
How Windsor compares
Windsor's 61st-percentile standing inside Vermont outpaces its 16th 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, Windsor ranks 26,427 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,679 by building count (1 is largest). Within Vermont alone, it ranks 73 of 179 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Vermont on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Windsor
Windsor's low wildfire rating (16th 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.
Hardening a home in Windsor
Windsor's 83.8% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 796 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Windsor. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Windsor, see the exposure-zones guide.