Evans Mills, NY
Evans Mills, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Evans Mills lands at the 7th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 346 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Evans Mills at the 8th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Evans Mills's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Evans Mills's 346 counted buildings, 63% carry Direct exposure and only 6.7% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Evans Mills against the rest of the country
Evans Mills's risk sits at a similar level relative to New York (14th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (7th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Evans Mills ranks 29,289 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,428 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 1,114 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Evans Mills
Evans Mills's low rating (7th 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
Because Direct exposure dominates in Evans Mills (63%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Evans Mills's 7th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Evans Mills, see the exposure-zones guide.