Fayetteville, NY
Fayetteville, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Fayetteville's 1,850 buildings earn a 8th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Fayetteville at the 7th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Fayetteville's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 69% of Fayetteville's 1,850 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 31% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Fayetteville against the rest of the country
Fayetteville scores 8th nationally and 15th within New York — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Fayetteville ranks 29,161 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,910 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 1,097 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Fayetteville and the insurance market
At the 8th national percentile, Fayetteville rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 69% of Fayetteville's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Fayetteville's 8th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Fayetteville, see the exposure-zones guide.