Blasdell, NY
Blasdell wildfire risk explained
Blasdell sits at the 24th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 1,414 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 Blasdell at the 24th percentile, close to its 24th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Blasdell's buildings (95.5% of 1,414) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
How Blasdell compares
Compare Blasdell's two percentiles: 51st within New York, only 24th nationally — a gap of 27 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Blasdell ranks 23,955 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,567 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 636 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Blasdell and the insurance market
Blasdell's moderate wildfire rating (24th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 95.5% of Blasdell 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Blasdell's 23,955-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Blasdell, see the exposure-zones guide.