Petersham, MA
Tracking 1,103 properties across Petersham, Massachusetts — a community where the median home dates to 1958 and the oldest to 1700. Every parcel mapped with building characteristics, environmental exposure, hazard risk, and ownership history assembled from 140+ sources.
Petersham, MAInc. 1733
Petersham is a small, exceptionally rural town in the northern part of Worcester County, known for Harvard Forest — a 4,000-acre research forest operated by Harvard University that is one of the most studied forest ecosystems in the world. The town's landscape is defined by conservation land, forests, and a handful of stately homes around the town common.
For property professionals, Petersham is a very small, rural market where the Harvard Forest presence creates unusual institutional land use and where the limited number of residential properties means each transaction is essentially unique.
Risk Profile
FEMA flood zones, fire protection grades, radon — parcel by parcel
FEMA Flood Zones
No properties in Petersham fall within FEMA Special Flood Hazard Areas.
Fire Protection Grades
Fire protection grades reflect proximity to fire stations and hydrant infrastructure. Grade affects insurance pricing in every New England state.
The Property Landscape
1,103 properties · Median year built 1958 · Avg 2,086 sf
Property Types
Construction by Era
Architectural Styles
Market Activity
Recorded transactions from Worcester County Registry of Deeds
NE Provenance tracks recorded deeds, mortgages, and liens for 91% of Petersham properties. Ownership intelligence includes transaction history, entity detection, portfolio identification, and lien analysis — assembled from public registry records into a single property-level profile.
Living in Petersham
Worcester County · Massachusetts
Petersham covers 68.2 square miles in Worcester County, Massachusetts. The median assessed property value is $251K.
Single-family homes account for 515 of Petersham's 1,103 properties. There are 180 parcels of vacant land. About 35% of properties are owner-occupied, and 4% are owned by someone out of state.
Assessed values range widely — the middle 50% of properties fall between $62K and $385K, with the highest assessed property at $11.8M. For professionals working in this market, the value spread tells you a lot about what you'll encounter door to door.
Most properties rely on private septic systems, and 0% have public water service. Electric service is provided by FITCHBURG GAS & ELEC LIGHT CO. 59 properties have identified commercial activity — restaurants, retail, professional offices, and services that give Petersham its character.
What Petersham Property Intelligence Means for Professionals
Insurance & Underwriting
Petersham's fire protection grade distribution (44 Grade C, 344 Grade D) directly affects premium calculation. Parcel-level hazard data provides the granularity that ZIP-level aggregation misses.
Insurance solutionsReal Estate & Appraisal
Petersham's 10 property types, spanning construction from 1700 to present, require local market knowledge for accurate comparable selection and valuation. NEP assembles building characteristics, environmental exposure, and condition signals into a single property profile.
Real estate solutionsLending & Title
Collateral assessment requires flood zone verification, environmental screening, and ownership chain validation. NEP provides property-level compliance data from public records.
Lending solutionsInspection & Property Services
Understanding a property's construction era, environmental exposure, and building characteristics before arriving on site transforms inspection from discovery to verification.
Inspection solutionsExplore Petersham property intelligence.
1,103 Petersham properties — each with risk profiles, building data, permit history, and ownership analysis from 140+ sources. Open any property and see the full picture.
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