Hailesboro, NY
Hailesboro, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Hailesboro lands at the 7th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 417 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Hailesboro's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 8th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
91.6% of Hailesboro's 417 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 382 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 8.4% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
How Hailesboro compares
There's little gap between Hailesboro's 7th national percentile and its 14th 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, Hailesboro ranks 29,290 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,887 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 1,115 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Hailesboro
At the 7th national percentile, Hailesboro 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
Hailesboro's 91.6% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Hailesboro's 29,290-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Hailesboro, see the exposure-zones guide.