Jamesport, NY
Jamesport, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Jamesport at the 43rd national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 1,992 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Jamesport's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 43rd percentile nationally.
Jamesport's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Jamesport's 1,992 counted buildings, 44.9% carry Direct exposure and only 13.9% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Jamesport compares
Compare Jamesport's two percentiles: 88th within New York, only 43rd nationally — a gap of 45 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Jamesport ranks 17,997 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,504 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 156 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Jamesport
Jamesport's elevated wildfire rating (43rd percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Jamesport's 44.9% 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
Jamesport's 43rd-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 Jamesport, see the exposure-zones guide.