Silver Springs, NY
How exposed is Silver Springs to wildfire?
Silver Springs's 403 buildings earn a 5th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Silver Springs at the 5th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 56.6% of Silver Springs's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 43.4% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Silver Springs against the rest of the country
Silver Springs's risk sits at a similar level relative to New York (5th 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, Silver Springs ranks 29,925 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,156 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 1,224 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Silver Springs and the insurance market
Silver Springs's low rating (5th 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
Even with 56.6% of Silver Springs 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Silver Springs's 29,925-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Silver Springs, see the exposure-zones guide.