Irvington, NY
Irvington wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Irvington lands at the 34th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 1,684 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Irvington's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 34th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 44.5% of Irvington's 1,684 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 55.5% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Irvington ranks
Within New York, Irvington ranks higher (75th percentile) than it does nationally (34th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Irvington ranks 20,680 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,480 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 329 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Irvington and the insurance market
Irvington's moderate rating (34th 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
Even with 55.5% of Irvington outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Irvington's 20,680-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Irvington, see the exposure-zones guide.