Barneveld, NY
Barneveld wildfire risk explained
Barneveld sits at the 5th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 216 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 Barneveld at the 6th percentile, close to its 5th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 81.5% of Barneveld's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 18.5% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 176 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Barneveld compares
There's little gap between Barneveld's 5th national percentile and its 6th 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, Barneveld ranks 29,818 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,279 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 1,203 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Barneveld and the insurance market
At the 5th national percentile, Barneveld rates low 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 81.5% of Barneveld in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Barneveld's 29,818-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Barneveld, see the exposure-zones guide.