Delevan, NY
Delevan, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Delevan at the 11th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 506 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 Delevan at the 11th percentile, close to its 11th-percentile risk score.
Where Delevan's buildings actually sit
75.1% of Delevan's 506 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 380 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 24.9% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Where Delevan ranks
There's little gap between Delevan's 11th national percentile and its 25th 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, Delevan ranks 28,181 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,243 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 966 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Delevan
Delevan's low wildfire rating (11th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 75.1% of Delevan 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Delevan's 28,181-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Delevan, see the exposure-zones guide.