Arlington, NY
Arlington, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Arlington sits at the 28th 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 914 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 Arlington at the 30th percentile, close to its 28th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Arlington rates 96% Minimal exposure against just 4.1% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 914 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Arlington ranks
Within New York, Arlington ranks higher (59th percentile) than it does nationally (28th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Arlington ranks 22,606 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,607 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 526 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 28th national percentile, Arlington rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 96% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Arlington gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Arlington's 22,606-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Arlington, see the exposure-zones guide.