Sloan, NY
How exposed is Sloan to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Sloan at the 22nd national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 2,089 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Sloan's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 24th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 0.5% of Sloan's 2,089 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 99.5% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Sloan against the rest of the country
Within New York, Sloan ranks higher (47th percentile) than it does nationally (22nd) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sloan ranks 24,654 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,223 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 680 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Sloan and the insurance market
At the 22nd national percentile, Sloan rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 99.5% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Sloan gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 2,089 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Sloan. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Sloan, see the exposure-zones guide.