Hannawa Falls, NY
Hannawa Falls, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Hannawa Falls's 641 buildings earn a 12th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Hannawa Falls at the 13th percentile, close to its 12th-percentile risk score.
Where Hannawa Falls's buildings actually sit
94.9% of Hannawa Falls's 641 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 608 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 3.7% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 1.4% are Minimal.
Where Hannawa Falls ranks
Hannawa Falls's 30th-percentile standing inside New York outpaces its 12th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hannawa Falls ranks 27,613 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,311 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 900 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Hannawa Falls and the insurance market
Hannawa Falls's low rating (12th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Hannawa Falls's 94.9% 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
Hannawa Falls's 12th-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 Hannawa Falls, see the exposure-zones guide.