Clinton, NY
How exposed is Clinton to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Clinton at the 7th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 890 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Clinton at the 7th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Clinton's building exposure, zone by zone
890 buildings are counted in Clinton, and 63.2% 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.
Where Clinton ranks
There's little gap between Clinton's 7th national percentile and its 12th 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, Clinton ranks 29,442 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,815 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 1,140 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Clinton's low wildfire rating (7th 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 Clinton
Because Direct exposure dominates in Clinton (63.2%), 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 Clinton's 29,442-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Clinton, see the exposure-zones guide.