Jamestown, NY
How exposed is Jamestown to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Jamestown at the 36th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 11,911 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Jamestown's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 37th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Jamestown rates 52.7% Minimal exposure against just 16.2% Direct and 31.1% Indirect — of 11,911 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 11,911 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Jamestown ranks
Within New York, Jamestown ranks higher (77th percentile) than it does nationally (36th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Jamestown ranks 20,236 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,313 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 296 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Jamestown and the insurance market
At the 36th national percentile, Jamestown rates moderate 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
Even with 52.7% of Jamestown 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 11,911 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Jamestown. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Jamestown, see the exposure-zones guide.