Pittsford, NY
Pittsford, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Pittsford sits at the 7th 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 885 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Pittsford at the 7th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Pittsford's building exposure, zone by zone
Pittsford rates 64.6% Minimal exposure against just 35.4% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 885 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Pittsford against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Pittsford's 7th national percentile and its 11th 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, Pittsford ranks 29,447 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,864 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 1,145 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
Pittsford's low rating (7th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 64.6% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Pittsford 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 Pittsford's 29,447-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Pittsford, see the exposure-zones guide.