Fredonia, NY
Fredonia, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Fredonia lands at the 32nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 3,464 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Fredonia at the 32nd percentile, close to its 32nd-percentile risk score.
Where Fredonia's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 44.7% of Fredonia's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 43.8% Direct and 11.5% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Fredonia compares
Within New York, Fredonia ranks higher (68th percentile) than it does nationally (32nd) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Fredonia ranks 21,558 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,823 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 414 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Fredonia
Fredonia's moderate wildfire rating (32nd percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Fredonia's 44.7% 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
Fredonia's 32nd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Fredonia, see the exposure-zones guide.