Seneca Falls, NY
Seneca Falls wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Seneca Falls at the 6th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 2,970 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Seneca Falls at the 6th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Seneca Falls's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 41.7% of Seneca Falls's 2,970 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 32.1% Direct and 26.2% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Seneca Falls compares
There's little gap between Seneca Falls's 6th national percentile and its 7th percentile inside New York, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Seneca Falls ranks 29,791 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,484 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 1,201 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Seneca Falls
Seneca Falls's low rating (6th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 41.7% of Seneca Falls's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Seneca Falls's 6th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Seneca Falls, see the exposure-zones guide.