Blodgett Mills, NY
Blodgett Mills, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Blodgett Mills's 191 buildings earn a 13th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Blodgett Mills at the 12th percentile, close to its 13th-percentile risk score.
Blodgett Mills's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Blodgett Mills: 99% of its 191 buildings, versus 1.1% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Blodgett Mills compares
Blodgett Mills's 30th-percentile standing inside New York outpaces its 13th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Blodgett Mills ranks 27,583 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,212 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 898 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Blodgett Mills and the insurance market
At the 13th national percentile, Blodgett Mills rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
With 99% of Blodgett Mills 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 Blodgett Mills's 27,583-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Blodgett Mills, see the exposure-zones guide.