East Avon, NY
East Avon wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts East Avon at the 2nd national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 353 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, East Avon's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 3rd percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
East Avon rates 53.5% Minimal exposure against just 46.5% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 353 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where East Avon ranks
East Avon's risk sits at a similar level relative to New York (1st percentile statewide) as it does nationally (2nd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, East Avon ranks 30,770 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,241 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 1,279 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
East Avon and the insurance market
East Avon's low rating (2nd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
East Avon's 53.5% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 353 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for East Avon. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond East Avon, see the exposure-zones guide.