Norfolk, NY
Norfolk, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Norfolk lands at the 18th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 751 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Norfolk at the 18th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Norfolk's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Norfolk's 751 counted buildings, 54.1% 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.
Norfolk against the rest of the country
Compare Norfolk's two percentiles: 42nd within New York, only 18th nationally — a gap of 24 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Norfolk ranks 25,756 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,114 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 748 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Norfolk and the insurance market
At the 18th national percentile, Norfolk rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Norfolk
Because Direct exposure dominates in Norfolk (54.1%), 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 Norfolk's 25,756-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Norfolk, see the exposure-zones guide.