Witches Woods, CT
Witches Woods, CT's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Witches Woods sits at the 29th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 88 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Witches Woods's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 26th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Witches Woods's 88 counted buildings, 93.2% carry Direct exposure and only 6.8% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Witches Woods ranks
Witches Woods scores 29th nationally and 39th within Connecticut — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Witches Woods ranks 22,336 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,564 by building count (1 is largest). Within Connecticut alone, it ranks 131 of 214 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Connecticut on its state page.
Witches Woods and the insurance market
Witches Woods's moderate rating (29th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because Direct exposure dominates in Witches Woods (93.2%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Witches Woods's 22,336-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Witches Woods, see the exposure-zones guide.