Woodbury Center, CT
How exposed is Woodbury Center to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Woodbury Center at the 44th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 723 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Woodbury Center at the 44th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Woodbury Center's buildings actually sit
723 buildings are counted in Woodbury Center, and 68.2% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Where Woodbury Center ranks
Woodbury Center's 94th-percentile standing inside Connecticut outpaces its 44th 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, Woodbury Center ranks 17,543 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,413 by building count (1 is largest). Within Connecticut alone, it ranks 13 of 214 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Connecticut on its state page.
Woodbury Center and the insurance market
Woodbury Center's elevated wildfire rating (44th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because Direct exposure dominates in Woodbury Center (68.2%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
Where Woodbury Center's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Woodbury Center's 17,543-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Woodbury Center's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.