Fort Drum, NY
Fort Drum, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Fort Drum's 2,899 buildings earn a 6th-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 Fort Drum at the 6th percentile, close to its 6th-percentile risk score.
Fort Drum's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 9.7% of Fort Drum's 2,899 buildings carry Direct exposure and 14.1% carry Indirect; the remaining 76.2% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Fort Drum ranks
Fort Drum's risk sits at a similar level relative to New York (8th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (6th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Fort Drum ranks 29,728 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,586 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 1,180 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Fort Drum
Fort Drum's low rating (6th 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
Fort Drum's 76.2% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Fort Drum's 29,728-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Fort Drum, see the exposure-zones guide.