De Witt, NY
De Witt wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts De Witt at the 9th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 3,932 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks De Witt at the 9th 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
72.5% of De Witt's 3,932 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 20.8% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Where De Witt ranks
De Witt scores 9th nationally and 21st within New York — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, De Witt ranks 28,622 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,306 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 1,017 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
De Witt and the insurance market
De Witt's low rating (9th 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
De Witt's 72.5% 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.
More on how this number was built
De Witt's 9th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond De Witt, see the exposure-zones guide.