Batavia, NY
How exposed is Batavia to wildfire?
Batavia 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 5,733 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Batavia at the 5th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
5,733 buildings are counted in Batavia, and 47.2% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 14.8% in Direct exposure or the 38% rated Minimal. At 5,733 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Batavia compares
Batavia scores 5th nationally and 5th 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, Batavia ranks 29,919 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,016 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 1,218 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Batavia and the insurance market
Batavia's low rating (5th 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 Batavia
Batavia's 47.2% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Batavia's 5th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Batavia, see the exposure-zones guide.