Byersville, NY
Byersville wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Byersville at the 13th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 44 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Byersville at the 12th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Byersville's building exposure, zone by zone
44 buildings are counted in Byersville, and 97.7% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Byersville against the rest of the country
Within New York, Byersville ranks higher (32nd percentile) than it does nationally (13th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Byersville ranks 27,328 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,075 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 874 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Byersville and the insurance market
Byersville's low wildfire rating (13th 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 Byersville
Byersville's 97.7% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
Where Byersville's figures come from
Byersville's 13th-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 Byersville's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.