Richfield Springs, NY
Richfield Springs, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Richfield Springs at the 7th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 713 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Richfield Springs at the 8th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Richfield Springs's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 52.6% of Richfield Springs's 713 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 47.4% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Richfield Springs against the rest of the country
Richfield Springs scores 7th nationally and 14th within New York — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Richfield Springs ranks 29,229 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,532 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 1,107 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Richfield Springs and the insurance market
Richfield Springs's low wildfire rating (7th 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.
Hardening a home in Richfield Springs
Richfield Springs's 52.6% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
Where Richfield Springs's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Richfield Springs's 29,229-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Richfield Springs's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.