Angola, NY
Angola wildfire risk explained
Angola sits at the 39th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 998 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Angola at the 39th percentile, close to its 39th-percentile risk score.
Where Angola's buildings actually sit
Of Angola's 998 counted buildings, 55.9% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Angola ranks
Angola's 84th-percentile standing inside New York outpaces its 39th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Angola ranks 19,134 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,950 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 213 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Angola and the insurance market
Angola's moderate wildfire rating (39th 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 Angola
Angola's 55.9% 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.
Where Angola's figures come from
Angola's 39th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Angola's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.