Munnsville, NY
How exposed is Munnsville to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Munnsville at the 13th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 235 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Munnsville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 12th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 71.5% of Munnsville's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 28.5% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 168 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Munnsville compares
Compare Munnsville's two percentiles: 31st within New York, only 13th nationally — a gap of 19 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Munnsville ranks 27,456 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,637 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 884 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Munnsville
At the 13th national percentile, Munnsville 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
Munnsville's 71.5% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Munnsville's 27,456-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Munnsville, see the exposure-zones guide.