Port Henry, NY
How exposed is Port Henry to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Port Henry lands at the 19th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 720 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 Henry at the 20th percentile, close to its 19th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
60.4% of Port Henry's 720 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 37.6% Direct and 1.9% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Where Port Henry ranks
Compare Port Henry's two percentiles: 44th within New York, only 19th nationally — a gap of 24 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Port Henry ranks 25,443 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,452 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 725 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 Henry
At the 19th national percentile, Port Henry rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 60.4% of Port Henry'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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Port Henry's 25,443-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Port Henry, see the exposure-zones guide.