Auburn, NY
Auburn wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Auburn at the 6th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 9,344 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 Auburn at the 6th percentile, close to its 6th-percentile risk score.
Auburn's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 10.7% of Auburn's 9,344 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 89.3% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 9,344 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Auburn against the rest of the country
Auburn scores 6th nationally and 7th 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, Auburn ranks 29,760 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,756 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 1,189 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Auburn and the insurance market
Auburn's low rating (6th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Auburn
Even with 89.3% of Auburn 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.
Where Auburn's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 9,344 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Auburn. The exposure-zones guide covers what Auburn's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.