Port Leyden, NY
Port Leyden, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Port Leyden lands at the 5th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 418 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Port Leyden at the 6th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Port Leyden: 68.9% of its 418 buildings, versus 31.1% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Port Leyden compares
There's little gap between Port Leyden's 5th national percentile and its 6th percentile inside New York, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Port Leyden ranks 29,825 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,864 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 1,210 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 Leyden's low rating (5th 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
With 68.9% of Port Leyden 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
Port Leyden's 5th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Port Leyden, see the exposure-zones guide.