Marist College, NY
Marist College wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Marist College lands at the 25th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 92 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Marist College's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 26th percentile nationally.
Marist College's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Marist College's buildings (67.4%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Marist College against the rest of the country
Within New York, Marist College ranks higher (54th percentile) than it does nationally (25th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Marist College ranks 23,519 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,418 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 598 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
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Marist College's moderate wildfire rating (25th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Marist College's 67.4% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Marist College's 23,519-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Marist College, see the exposure-zones guide.