Brownville, NY
How exposed is Brownville to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Brownville at the 10th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 485 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Brownville at the 11th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Brownville's building exposure, zone by zone
485 buildings are counted in Brownville, and 74.6% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 25.4% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Brownville against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Brownville's 10th national percentile and its 24th 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, Brownville ranks 28,286 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,617 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 980 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Brownville and the insurance market
Brownville's low rating (10th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Brownville's 74.6% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 485 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Brownville. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Brownville, see the exposure-zones guide.