Lackawanna, NY
Lackawanna, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Lackawanna at the 25th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 8,297 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 Lackawanna at the 25th percentile, close to its 25th-percentile risk score.
Lackawanna's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 93.6% of Lackawanna's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 6.4% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 8,297 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Lackawanna against the rest of the country
Compare Lackawanna's two percentiles: 53rd within New York, only 25th nationally — a gap of 28 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lackawanna ranks 23,645 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,009 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 612 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
Lackawanna's moderate rating (25th 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 Lackawanna
Lackawanna's 93.6% 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.
Where Lackawanna's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Lackawanna's 23,645-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Lackawanna's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.