Oriskany Falls, NY
Oriskany Falls, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Oriskany Falls's 328 buildings earn a 8th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Oriskany Falls at the 8th percentile, close to its 8th-percentile risk score.
Oriskany Falls's building exposure, zone by zone
328 buildings are counted in Oriskany Falls, and 57.9% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Oriskany Falls against the rest of the country
Oriskany Falls's risk sits at a similar level relative to New York (16th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (8th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Oriskany Falls ranks 29,107 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,876 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 1,085 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Oriskany Falls and the insurance market
Oriskany Falls's low rating (8th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Oriskany Falls's 57.9% 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.
Where Oriskany Falls's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Oriskany Falls's 29,107-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Oriskany Falls's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.