Port Byron, NY
How exposed is Port Byron to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Port Byron lands at the 8th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 569 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Port Byron at the 8th percentile, close to its 8th-percentile risk score.
Port Byron's building exposure, zone by zone
569 buildings are counted in Port Byron, and 56.1% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Port Byron against the rest of the country
Port Byron scores 8th nationally and 18th within New York — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Port Byron ranks 28,974 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,270 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 1,064 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Port Byron
Port Byron's low wildfire rating (8th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 56.1% of Port Byron in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Port Byron's 28,974-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Port Byron, see the exposure-zones guide.