Depew, NY
How exposed is Depew to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Depew at the 23rd national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 7,914 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Depew at the 23rd national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Depew's buildings actually sit
Depew rates 94.9% Minimal exposure against just 5.1% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 7,914 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 7,914 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Depew ranks
Within New York, Depew ranks higher (50th percentile) than it does nationally (23rd) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Depew ranks 24,150 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,144 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 650 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Depew
At the 23rd national percentile, Depew rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Depew's 94.9% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 7,914 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Depew. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Depew, see the exposure-zones guide.