Fort Plain, NY
Fort Plain, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Fort Plain's 1,087 buildings earn a 7th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Fort Plain's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 7th percentile nationally.
Fort Plain's building exposure, zone by zone
Indirect exposure is dominant in Fort Plain (75.1% of 1,087 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 24.9% sit in the Direct zone.
How Fort Plain compares
Fort Plain's risk sits at a similar level relative to New York (12th 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, Fort Plain ranks 29,417 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,358 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 1,135 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Fort Plain'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.
Hardening a home in Fort Plain
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Fort Plain (75.1% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Fort Plain's 29,417-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Fort Plain, see the exposure-zones guide.