Woodsville, NH
Woodsville, NH's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Woodsville sits at the 16th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 706 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Woodsville at the 16th percentile, close to its 16th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Indirect exposure is dominant in Woodsville (80.2% of 706 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 19.8% sit in the Direct zone.
Woodsville against the rest of the country
Woodsville scores 16th nationally and 26th within New Hampshire — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Woodsville ranks 26,574 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,598 by building count (1 is largest). Within New Hampshire alone, it ranks 74 of 100 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New Hampshire on its state page.
Woodsville and the insurance market
Woodsville's low wildfire rating (16th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Woodsville's 80.2% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Woodsville's 26,574-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Woodsville, see the exposure-zones guide.