Port Gibson, NY
Port Gibson, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Port Gibson at the 4th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 264 actual buildings. (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 Gibson at the 4th percentile, close to its 4th-percentile risk score.
Port Gibson's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Port Gibson's 264 counted buildings, 64.4% carry Direct exposure and only 35.6% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Port Gibson compares
Port Gibson scores 4th nationally and 3rd 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 Gibson ranks 30,268 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,709 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 1,249 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
Port Gibson's low wildfire rating (4th 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
Port Gibson's 64.4% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Port Gibson's 30,268-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 Gibson, see the exposure-zones guide.