Woburn, MA
Woburn wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Woburn at the 26th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 12,908 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Woburn at the 22nd national percentile — 4 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Woburn's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 92.9% of Woburn's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 2.9% Direct and 4.1% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 12,908 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Woburn compares
Within Massachusetts, Woburn ranks higher (54th percentile) than it does nationally (26th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Woburn ranks 23,233 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,179 by building count (1 is largest). Within Massachusetts alone, it ranks 116 of 248 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Massachusetts on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Woburn
Woburn's moderate rating (26th 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
With 92.9% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Woburn gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 12,908 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Woburn. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Woburn, see the exposure-zones guide.