Salisbury Center, NY
Salisbury Center, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Salisbury Center at the 7th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 242 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Salisbury Center's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 7th percentile nationally.
Where Salisbury Center's buildings actually sit
94.2% of Salisbury Center's 242 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 228 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 5.8% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Where Salisbury Center ranks
Salisbury Center's risk sits at a similar level relative to New York (12th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (7th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Salisbury Center ranks 29,388 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,397 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 1,131 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Salisbury Center
At the 7th national percentile, Salisbury Center rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Salisbury Center's 94.2% 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 Salisbury Center's figures come from
Salisbury Center's 7th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Salisbury Center's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.