Mount Vision, NY
Mount Vision, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Mount Vision lands at the 16th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 167 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Mount Vision's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 16th percentile nationally.
Mount Vision's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Mount Vision's 167 counted buildings, 91% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Mount Vision compares
Mount Vision's 37th-percentile standing inside New York outpaces its 16th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mount Vision ranks 26,604 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,145 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 811 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Mount Vision and the insurance market
Mount Vision's low wildfire rating (16th 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
Because Direct exposure dominates in Mount Vision (91%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Mount Vision's 26,604-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Mount Vision, see the exposure-zones guide.