East Rochester, NY
East Rochester, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
East Rochester sits at the 6th 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 2,811 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, East Rochester's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 7th percentile nationally.
East Rochester's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 5.3% of East Rochester's 2,811 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 94.7% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
East Rochester against the rest of the country
There's little gap between East Rochester's 6th national percentile and its 9th 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 Rochester ranks 29,664 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,741 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 1,169 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
East Rochester and the insurance market
At the 6th national percentile, East Rochester rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 94.7% of East Rochester outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
East Rochester's 6th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond East Rochester, see the exposure-zones guide.