Edmeston, NY
Edmeston wildfire risk explained
Edmeston's 496 buildings earn a 14th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Edmeston at the 15th percentile, close to its 14th-percentile risk score.
Where Edmeston's buildings actually sit
496 buildings are counted in Edmeston, and 81.1% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Where Edmeston ranks
Edmeston's 34th-percentile standing inside New York outpaces its 14th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Edmeston ranks 27,112 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,427 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 855 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Edmeston and the insurance market
Edmeston's low wildfire rating (14th 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.
Hardening a home in Edmeston
Edmeston's 81.1% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Edmeston's 27,112-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Edmeston, see the exposure-zones guide.