Brighton, NY
How exposed is Brighton to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Brighton at the 7th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 11,561 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Brighton at the 8th percentile, close to its 7th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Brighton's buildings (54.5% of 11,561) 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. At 11,561 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Brighton compares
There's little gap between Brighton's 7th national percentile and its 13th 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, Brighton ranks 29,352 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,359 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 1,124 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Brighton
At the 7th national percentile, Brighton rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Brighton
Even with 54.5% of Brighton 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.
Where Brighton's figures come from
Brighton's 7th-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 Brighton's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.