Winooski, VT
Winooski, VT's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Winooski's 1,911 buildings earn a 9th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Winooski at the 8th percentile, close to its 9th-percentile risk score.
Where Winooski's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 65.2% of Winooski's 1,911 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 1.9% Direct and 32.9% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where Winooski ranks
Winooski scores 9th nationally and 4th within Vermont — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Winooski ranks 28,791 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,730 by building count (1 is largest). Within Vermont alone, it ranks 173 of 179 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Vermont on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Winooski's low wildfire rating (9th 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 Winooski
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Winooski (65.2% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,911 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Winooski. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Winooski, see the exposure-zones guide.