Little Falls, NY
Little Falls, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Little Falls sits at the 7th 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 1,931 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Little Falls at the 7th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Little Falls's buildings actually sit
77.9% of Little Falls's 1,931 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 22.1% Direct and 0.1% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Where Little Falls ranks
There's little gap between Little Falls's 7th national percentile and its 11th percentile inside New York, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Little Falls ranks 29,475 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,677 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 1,148 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Little Falls and the insurance market
At the 7th national percentile, Little Falls rates low 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
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Little Falls (77.9% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
Where Little Falls's figures come from
Little Falls's 7th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Little Falls's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.