Winthrop, ME
How exposed is Winthrop to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Winthrop at the 7th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 1,343 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Winthrop at the 7th percentile, close to its 7th-percentile risk score.
Where Winthrop's buildings actually sit
Of Winthrop's 1,343 counted buildings, 57.3% carry Direct exposure and only 1.9% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Winthrop compares
Winthrop scores 7th nationally and 7th within Maine — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Winthrop ranks 29,376 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,862 by building count (1 is largest). Within Maine alone, it ranks 145 of 155 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Maine on its state page.
Winthrop and the insurance market
Winthrop's low rating (7th 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 Winthrop
With 57.3% of Winthrop in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Winthrop's 29,376-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Winthrop, see the exposure-zones guide.