Gloversville, NY
How exposed is Gloversville to wildfire?
USFS scores Gloversville at the 14th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 6,358 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Gloversville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 15th percentile nationally.
Gloversville's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 77% of Gloversville's 6,358 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 11.4% Direct and 11.5% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to. At 6,358 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Gloversville ranks
Within New York, Gloversville ranks higher (34th percentile) than it does nationally (14th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Gloversville ranks 27,174 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,723 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 858 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Gloversville and the insurance market
At the 14th national percentile, Gloversville rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 77% of Gloversville'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.
Where Gloversville's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Gloversville's 27,174-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Gloversville's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.