Baldwin, NY
How exposed is Baldwin to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Baldwin lands at the 49th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 10,661 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Baldwin's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 43rd percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 1.2% of Baldwin's 10,661 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 98.8% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 10,661 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Baldwin compares
Compare Baldwin's two percentiles: 93rd within New York, only 49th nationally — a gap of 44 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Baldwin ranks 16,076 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,495 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 89 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Baldwin
Baldwin's elevated wildfire rating (49th 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
With 98.8% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Baldwin gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Baldwin's figures come from
Baldwin's 49th-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 Baldwin's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.