Irondequoit, NY
How exposed is Irondequoit to wildfire?
Irondequoit's 21,955 buildings earn a 7th-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 Irondequoit at the 7th percentile, close to its 7th-percentile risk score.
Where Irondequoit's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 81.9% of Irondequoit's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 18.1% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 21,955 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Irondequoit ranks
Irondequoit's risk sits at a similar level relative to New York (13th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (7th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Irondequoit ranks 29,354 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 625 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 1,126 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Irondequoit and the insurance market
At the 7th national percentile, Irondequoit 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
Irondequoit's 81.9% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 21,955 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Irondequoit. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Irondequoit, see the exposure-zones guide.