Sidney, NY
How exposed is Sidney to wildfire?
USFS scores Sidney at the 10th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 1,863 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Sidney's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 10th percentile nationally.
Sidney's building exposure, zone by zone
1,863 buildings are counted in Sidney, and 73.3% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 23.2% in Direct exposure or the 3.5% rated Minimal.
Where Sidney ranks
Sidney scores 10th nationally and 24th 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, Sidney ranks 28,314 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,872 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 987 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Sidney
Sidney's low wildfire rating (10th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Sidney's 73.3% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Sidney's 28,314-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Sidney, see the exposure-zones guide.