Attica, NY
How exposed is Attica to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Attica at the 7th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 1,170 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 Attica at the 7th percentile, close to its 7th-percentile risk score.
Attica's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 50.3% of Attica's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 49.7% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 588 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Where Attica ranks
There's little gap between Attica's 7th national percentile and its 14th percentile inside New York, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Attica ranks 29,257 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,829 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 1,109 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Attica and the insurance market
Attica's low wildfire rating (7th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Attica's 50.3% 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 Attica's figures come from
Attica's 7th-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 Attica's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.