Brushton, NY
Brushton, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Brushton lands at the 12th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 272 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Brushton at the 12th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Brushton's buildings actually sit
Most of Brushton's buildings (57%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Where Brushton ranks
Within New York, Brushton ranks higher (28th percentile) than it does nationally (12th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Brushton ranks 27,863 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,448 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 923 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Brushton
Brushton's low wildfire rating (12th 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.
Hardening a home in Brushton
Because 57% of Brushton's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 272 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Brushton. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Brushton, see the exposure-zones guide.