Palmyra, NY
Palmyra wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Palmyra at the 8th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 1,489 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Palmyra at the 8th percentile, close to its 8th-percentile risk score.
Palmyra's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 37.3% of Palmyra's 1,489 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 34.7% Direct and 28% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Palmyra compares
Palmyra's risk sits at a similar level relative to New York (15th 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, Palmyra ranks 29,163 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,213 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 1,099 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Palmyra
Palmyra'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.
Hardening a home in Palmyra
Because 37.3% of Palmyra'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.
More on how this number was built
Palmyra's 8th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Palmyra, see the exposure-zones guide.