Conesus, NY
How exposed is Conesus to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Conesus at the 34th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 207 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Conesus at the 32nd percentile, close to its 34th-percentile risk score.
Conesus's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Conesus: 99.5% of its 207 buildings, versus 0.5% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Conesus compares
Conesus's 74th-percentile standing inside New York outpaces its 34th 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, Conesus ranks 20,738 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,613 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 331 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Conesus and the insurance market
Conesus's moderate wildfire rating (34th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 99.5% of Conesus in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 207 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Conesus. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Conesus, see the exposure-zones guide.