Port Chester, NY
How exposed is Port Chester to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Port Chester lands at the 28th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 8,937 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Port Chester's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 29th percentile nationally.
Where Port Chester's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 94.8% of Port Chester's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 5.2% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 8,937 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Port Chester compares
Port Chester's 58th-percentile standing inside New York outpaces its 28th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Port Chester ranks 22,762 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,863 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 540 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Port Chester and the insurance market
Port Chester's moderate rating (28th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 94.8% of Port Chester outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 8,937 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Port Chester. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Port Chester, see the exposure-zones guide.