Ogdensburg, NY
How exposed is Ogdensburg to wildfire?
USFS scores Ogdensburg at the 9th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 4,312 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Ogdensburg at the 9th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Ogdensburg's buildings actually sit
4,312 buildings are counted in Ogdensburg, and 48.5% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 5.1% in Direct exposure or the 46.4% rated Minimal.
How Ogdensburg compares
Ogdensburg scores 9th nationally and 20th within New York — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Ogdensburg ranks 28,751 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,970 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 1,036 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 9th national percentile, Ogdensburg rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 48.5% of Ogdensburg'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.
Where Ogdensburg's figures come from
Ogdensburg's 9th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Ogdensburg's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.