Morris, NY
How exposed is Morris to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Morris at the 14th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 413 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Morris's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 15th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Morris's buildings (53.8%) 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.
Where Morris ranks
Within New York, Morris ranks higher (34th percentile) than it does nationally (14th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Morris ranks 26,987 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,972 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 850 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Morris
At the 14th national percentile, Morris 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
Because 53.8% of Morris's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Morris's 26,987-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Morris, see the exposure-zones guide.