Honeoye Falls, NY
How exposed is Honeoye Falls to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Honeoye Falls at the 7th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 1,110 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Honeoye Falls at the 8th percentile, close to its 7th-percentile risk score.
Where Honeoye Falls's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 61% of Honeoye Falls's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 18.9% Indirect share and far above its 20.1% Minimal share — a profile where 677 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Honeoye Falls compares
There's little gap between Honeoye Falls'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, Honeoye Falls ranks 29,194 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,220 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 1,103 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Honeoye Falls's low rating (7th 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 Honeoye Falls
With 61% of Honeoye Falls 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Honeoye Falls's 29,194-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Honeoye Falls, see the exposure-zones guide.