Geneseo, NY
Geneseo wildfire risk explained
Geneseo sits at the 6th 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 1,654 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Geneseo's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 6th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Geneseo's 1,654 counted buildings, 57.3% carry Direct exposure and only 3.9% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Geneseo ranks
There's little gap between Geneseo's 6th national percentile and its 8th 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, Geneseo ranks 29,763 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,581 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 1,192 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Geneseo
Geneseo's low wildfire rating (6th 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.
Hardening a home in Geneseo
Because Direct exposure dominates in Geneseo (57.3%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Geneseo's 29,763-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Geneseo, see the exposure-zones guide.