Alexandria Bay, NY
How exposed is Alexandria Bay to wildfire?
Alexandria Bay's 724 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.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Alexandria Bay at the 7th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Alexandria Bay's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Alexandria Bay's buildings (86.9%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Alexandria Bay against the rest of the country
Alexandria Bay scores 8th nationally and 15th 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, Alexandria Bay ranks 29,159 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,406 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 1,095 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Alexandria Bay
At the 8th national percentile, Alexandria Bay rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Alexandria Bay
Because 86.9% of Alexandria Bay's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Alexandria Bay's 29,159-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Alexandria Bay, see the exposure-zones guide.