Livonia Center, NY
Livonia Center, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Livonia Center at the 8th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 224 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 Livonia Center at the 8th percentile, close to its 8th-percentile risk score.
Livonia Center's building exposure, zone by zone
224 buildings are counted in Livonia Center, and 87.1% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 12.5% rated Minimal.
Livonia Center against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Livonia Center's 8th national percentile and its 17th 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, Livonia Center ranks 28,972 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,984 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 1,062 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Livonia Center and the insurance market
Livonia Center's low wildfire rating (8th 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
Because Direct exposure dominates in Livonia Center (87.1%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
Where Livonia Center's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Livonia Center's 28,972-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Livonia Center's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.