Endwell, NY
Endwell, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Endwell lands at the 12th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 5,066 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Endwell at the 12th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
60.7% of Endwell's 5,066 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 15.2% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 5,066 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Endwell against the rest of the country
Within New York, Endwell ranks higher (30th percentile) than it does nationally (12th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Endwell ranks 27,647 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,400 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 902 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Endwell and the insurance market
Endwell's low rating (12th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
With 60.7% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Endwell gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Endwell's 27,647-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Endwell, see the exposure-zones guide.