Fulton, NY
How exposed is Fulton to wildfire?
Fulton sits at the 9th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 4,550 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Fulton at the 9th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Fulton's buildings actually sit
4,550 buildings are counted in Fulton, and 81% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 18.5% in Direct exposure or the 0.5% rated Minimal.
Fulton against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Fulton's 9th national percentile and its 20th percentile inside New York, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Fulton ranks 28,782 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,752 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 1,040 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Fulton
Fulton's low rating (9th 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 81% of Fulton'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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Fulton's 28,782-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Fulton, see the exposure-zones guide.