Cape Vincent, NY
Cape Vincent, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Cape Vincent's 569 buildings earn a 9th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Cape Vincent's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 9th percentile nationally.
Where Cape Vincent's buildings actually sit
Cape Vincent rates 86.6% Minimal exposure against just 13.4% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 569 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Cape Vincent compares
There's little gap between Cape Vincent's 9th national percentile and its 21st 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, Cape Vincent ranks 28,596 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,269 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 1,011 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Cape Vincent
At the 9th national percentile, Cape Vincent rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Cape Vincent's 86.6% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where Cape Vincent's figures come from
Cape Vincent's 9th-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 Cape Vincent's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.