Albertson, NY
Albertson wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Albertson at the 30th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 1,899 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Albertson at the 32nd percentile, close to its 30th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Albertson rates 97.8% Minimal exposure against just 2.2% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 1,899 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Albertson against the rest of the country
Compare Albertson's two percentiles: 63rd within New York, only 30th nationally — a gap of 33 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Albertson ranks 22,192 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,769 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 481 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Albertson and the insurance market
Albertson's moderate rating (30th 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 Albertson 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Albertson's 22,192-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Albertson, see the exposure-zones guide.