Lakeland, NY
Lakeland, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Lakeland sits at the 8th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 1,329 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Lakeland at the 7th percentile, close to its 8th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 25.8% of Lakeland's 1,329 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 74.2% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Lakeland ranks
Lakeland's risk sits at a similar level relative to New York (15th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (8th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lakeland ranks 29,131 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,938 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 1,092 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
At the 8th national percentile, Lakeland rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Lakeland
Lakeland's 74.2% 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
Lakeland's 8th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Lakeland, see the exposure-zones guide.