Penn Yan, NY
Penn Yan, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Penn Yan's 2,251 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 Penn Yan at the 7th percentile, close to its 8th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 64.7% of Penn Yan's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 35.3% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Penn Yan compares
Penn Yan's risk sits at a similar level relative to New York (17th 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, Penn Yan ranks 29,037 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,812 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 1,074 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Penn Yan and the insurance market
Penn Yan'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 Penn Yan
With 64.7% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Penn Yan gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Penn Yan's 29,037-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Penn Yan, see the exposure-zones guide.