Sharon Springs, NY
How exposed is Sharon Springs to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Sharon Springs lands at the 10th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 358 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Sharon Springs at the 10th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Sharon Springs's buildings actually sit
79.9% of Sharon Springs's 358 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 286 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 20.1% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Sharon Springs against the rest of the country
Sharon Springs's risk sits at a similar level relative to New York (23rd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (10th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sharon Springs ranks 28,378 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,111 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 990 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Sharon Springs's low rating (10th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
With 79.9% of Sharon Springs 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Sharon Springs's 28,378-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Sharon Springs, see the exposure-zones guide.