East Aurora, NY
How exposed is East Aurora to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts East Aurora at the 12th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 2,703 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 East Aurora at the 12th percentile, close to its 12th-percentile risk score.
Where East Aurora's buildings actually sit
2,703 buildings are counted in East Aurora, and 61.6% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 9.8% rated Minimal.
How East Aurora compares
Compare East Aurora's two percentiles: 30th within New York, only 12th nationally — a gap of 18 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, East Aurora ranks 27,677 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,921 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 906 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
East Aurora's low rating (12th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in East Aurora
Because Direct exposure dominates in East Aurora (61.6%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind East Aurora's 27,677-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond East Aurora, see the exposure-zones guide.