East Ithaca, NY
East Ithaca wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, East Ithaca lands at the 15th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 864 buildings, not the land around them. (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 Ithaca at the 14th percentile, close to its 15th-percentile risk score.
East Ithaca's building exposure, zone by zone
864 buildings are counted in East Ithaca, and 67.4% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 3.7% rated Minimal.
East Ithaca against the rest of the country
Compare East Ithaca's two percentiles: 35th within New York, only 15th nationally — a gap of 20 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, East Ithaca ranks 26,859 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,039 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 839 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
At the 15th national percentile, East Ithaca rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in East Ithaca
East Ithaca's 67.4% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 864 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for East Ithaca. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond East Ithaca, see the exposure-zones guide.