Port Ewen, NY
How exposed is Port Ewen to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Port Ewen lands at the 31st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 1,626 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Port Ewen at the 31st national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Port Ewen's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 54.2% of Port Ewen's 1,626 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 35% Direct and 10.8% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where Port Ewen ranks
Within New York, Port Ewen ranks higher (67th percentile) than it does nationally (31st) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Port Ewen ranks 21,693 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,671 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 430 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 Ewen
Port Ewen's moderate wildfire rating (31st 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 54.2% of Port Ewen's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Port Ewen's 31st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Port Ewen, see the exposure-zones guide.