Cairo, NY
Cairo wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Cairo at the 33rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 817 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Cairo at the 31st percentile, close to its 33rd-percentile risk score.
Cairo's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Cairo's 817 counted buildings, 69% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Cairo against the rest of the country
Cairo's 70th-percentile standing inside New York outpaces its 33rd 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, Cairo ranks 21,209 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,485 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 379 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Cairo
Cairo's moderate wildfire rating (33rd 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because Direct exposure dominates in Cairo (69%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Cairo's 21,209-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Cairo, see the exposure-zones guide.