Siena College, NY
Siena College wildfire risk explained
Siena College's 74 buildings earn a 11th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Siena College at the 12th percentile, close to its 11th-percentile risk score.
Siena College's building exposure, zone by zone
Siena College rates 87.8% Minimal exposure against just 12.2% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 74 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Siena College compares
Siena College's 26th-percentile standing inside New York outpaces its 11th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Siena College ranks 28,059 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,143 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 951 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Siena College and the insurance market
Siena College's low wildfire rating (11th 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
Siena College's 87.8% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Siena College's 28,059-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Siena College, see the exposure-zones guide.