Harrison, NY
How exposed is Harrison to wildfire?
Harrison's 7,669 buildings earn a 33rd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Harrison at the 33rd national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Harrison's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 44.8% of Harrison's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 16.4% Indirect share and far above its 38.7% Minimal share — a profile where 3,438 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most. At 7,669 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Harrison ranks
Compare Harrison's two percentiles: 71st within New York, only 33rd nationally — a gap of 38 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Harrison ranks 21,151 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,225 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 374 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Harrison and the insurance market
Harrison's moderate rating (33rd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Harrison
Harrison's 44.8% 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 Harrison's 21,151-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Harrison, see the exposure-zones guide.