Delhi, NY
Delhi, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Delhi's 825 buildings earn a 15th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Delhi's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 15th percentile nationally.
Delhi's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 54.3% of Delhi's 825 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 45.7% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where Delhi ranks
Within New York, Delhi ranks higher (35th percentile) than it does nationally (15th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Delhi ranks 26,896 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,399 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 843 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Delhi
At the 15th national percentile, Delhi rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Delhi (54.3% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Delhi's 26,896-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Delhi, see the exposure-zones guide.