Pultneyville, NY
How exposed is Pultneyville to wildfire?
USFS scores Pultneyville at the 11th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 526 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Pultneyville at the 11th percentile, close to its 11th-percentile risk score.
Where Pultneyville's buildings actually sit
91.4% of Pultneyville's 526 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 481 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 0.2% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 8.4% are Minimal.
How Pultneyville compares
Within New York, Pultneyville ranks higher (27th percentile) than it does nationally (11th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pultneyville ranks 28,025 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,928 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 947 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Pultneyville and the insurance market
At the 11th national percentile, Pultneyville rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
With 91.4% of Pultneyville 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
Pultneyville's 11th-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 Pultneyville, see the exposure-zones guide.