Pottersville, NY
Pottersville wildfire risk explained
Pottersville's 312 buildings earn a 25th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Pottersville at the 25th percentile, close to its 25th-percentile risk score.
Where Pottersville's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Pottersville: 81.7% of its 312 buildings, versus 17% Indirect and 1.3% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Pottersville ranks
Pottersville's 51st-percentile standing inside New York outpaces its 25th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pottersville ranks 23,807 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,324 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 631 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Pottersville and the insurance market
Pottersville's moderate rating (25th 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
Pottersville's 81.7% 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.
Where Pottersville's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Pottersville's 23,807-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Pottersville's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.