Woodmont, CT
Woodmont wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Woodmont at the 23rd national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 718 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Woodmont's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 24th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 97.8% of Woodmont's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 2.2% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Woodmont ranks
There's little gap between Woodmont's 23rd national percentile and its 17th percentile inside Connecticut, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Woodmont ranks 24,193 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,473 by building count (1 is largest). Within Connecticut alone, it ranks 177 of 214 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Connecticut on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Woodmont
Woodmont's moderate rating (23rd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 97.8% of Woodmont outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 718 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Woodmont. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Woodmont, see the exposure-zones guide.