Portlandville, NY
Portlandville, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Portlandville's 132 buildings earn a 13th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Portlandville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 14th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Portlandville: 81.8% of its 132 buildings, versus 18.2% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Portlandville compares
Within New York, Portlandville ranks higher (32nd percentile) than it does nationally (13th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Portlandville ranks 27,332 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,634 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 878 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Portlandville and the insurance market
Portlandville's low wildfire rating (13th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Portlandville's 81.8% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 132 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Portlandville. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Portlandville, see the exposure-zones guide.