East Herkimer, NY
How exposed is East Herkimer to wildfire?
East Herkimer sits at the 7th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 540 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks East Herkimer at the 7th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where East Herkimer's buildings actually sit
540 buildings are counted in East Herkimer, and 68.9% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 31.1% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
How East Herkimer compares
There's little gap between East Herkimer's 7th national percentile and its 12th 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, East Herkimer ranks 29,445 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,722 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 1,143 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
East Herkimer and the insurance market
East Herkimer's low wildfire rating (7th 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
Because 68.9% of East Herkimer's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind East Herkimer's 29,445-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond East Herkimer, see the exposure-zones guide.