Prattsburgh, NY
How exposed is Prattsburgh to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Prattsburgh at the 17th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 467 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Prattsburgh at the 17th 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
Of Prattsburgh's 467 counted buildings, 73.9% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Prattsburgh against the rest of the country
Within New York, Prattsburgh ranks higher (39th percentile) than it does nationally (17th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Prattsburgh ranks 26,261 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,943 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 788 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Prattsburgh and the insurance market
At the 17th national percentile, Prattsburgh rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Prattsburgh
Because Direct exposure dominates in Prattsburgh (73.9%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Prattsburgh's 26,261-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Prattsburgh, see the exposure-zones guide.