Adams Center, NY
Adams Center, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Adams Center's 994 buildings earn a 8th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Adams Center at the 8th percentile, close to its 8th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
71.8% of Adams Center's 994 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 714 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 26.7% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 1.5% are Minimal.
Where Adams Center ranks
Adams Center scores 8th nationally and 17th within New York — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Adams Center ranks 29,063 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,981 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 1,075 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Adams Center
Adams Center's low rating (8th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Adams Center's 71.8% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Adams Center's 8th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Adams Center, see the exposure-zones guide.