Gouverneur, NY
Gouverneur wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Gouverneur at the 8th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 1,770 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Gouverneur at the 9th percentile, close to its 8th-percentile risk score.
Where Gouverneur's buildings actually sit
1,770 buildings are counted in Gouverneur, and 81.9% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 18.1% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Where Gouverneur ranks
Gouverneur's risk sits at a similar level relative to New York (17th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (8th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Gouverneur ranks 29,034 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,153 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 1,071 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Gouverneur
At the 8th national percentile, Gouverneur rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Gouverneur
Because 81.9% of Gouverneur'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 Gouverneur's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,770 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Gouverneur. The exposure-zones guide covers what Gouverneur's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.