Pamelia Center, NY
Pamelia Center wildfire risk explained
Pamelia Center sits at the 8th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 288 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Pamelia Center at the 9th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Pamelia Center's buildings actually sit
288 buildings are counted in Pamelia Center, and 70.1% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 2.1% rated Minimal.
How Pamelia Center compares
There's little gap between Pamelia Center's 8th national percentile and its 17th percentile inside New York, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pamelia Center ranks 29,001 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,968 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 1,067 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Pamelia Center
At the 8th national percentile, Pamelia Center 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
Pamelia Center's 70.1% 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 Pamelia Center's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Pamelia Center's 29,001-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Pamelia Center's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.