Yarmouth Port, MA
How exposed is Yarmouth Port to wildfire?
USFS scores Yarmouth Port at the 26th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 3,178 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Yarmouth Port at the 17th national percentile — 9 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Yarmouth Port's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 67.1% of Yarmouth Port's 3,178 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 28.8% Direct and 4.1% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Yarmouth Port compares
Compare Yarmouth Port's two percentiles: 48th within Massachusetts, only 26th nationally — a gap of 22 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Yarmouth Port ranks 23,386 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,191 by building count (1 is largest). Within Massachusetts alone, it ranks 132 of 248 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Massachusetts on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Yarmouth Port
Yarmouth Port's moderate wildfire rating (26th 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.
Hardening a home in Yarmouth Port
Yarmouth Port's 67.1% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 3,178 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Yarmouth Port. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Yarmouth Port, see the exposure-zones guide.