Davenport Center, NY
Davenport Center, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Davenport Center lands at the 11th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 262 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Davenport Center at the 11th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Davenport Center: 96.6% of its 262 buildings, versus 3.4% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Davenport Center ranks
Compare Davenport Center's two percentiles: 27th within New York, only 11th nationally — a gap of 16 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Davenport Center ranks 27,991 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,775 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 938 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
Davenport Center's low rating (11th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Davenport Center's 96.6% 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 Davenport Center's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Davenport Center's 27,991-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Davenport Center's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.