Hamlin, NY
Hamlin, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Hamlin 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 2,255 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Hamlin at the 6th percentile, close to its 6th-percentile risk score.
Hamlin's building exposure, zone by zone
2,255 buildings are counted in Hamlin, and 66.3% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 29.4% rated Minimal.
Where Hamlin ranks
There's little gap between Hamlin's 6th national percentile and its 7th 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, Hamlin ranks 29,789 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,805 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 1,199 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Hamlin
At the 6th national percentile, Hamlin 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
With 66.3% of Hamlin in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Hamlin's 6th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Hamlin, see the exposure-zones guide.