Shortsville, NY
How exposed is Shortsville to wildfire?
USFS scores Shortsville at the 5th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 735 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Shortsville at the 6th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Shortsville's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Shortsville's buildings (59.9% of 735) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
Where Shortsville ranks
Shortsville's risk sits at a similar level relative to New York (6th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (5th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Shortsville ranks 29,827 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,278 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 1,212 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Shortsville
Shortsville's low wildfire rating (5th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 59.9% of Shortsville outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Shortsville's 5th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Shortsville, see the exposure-zones guide.