Southport, NY
Southport, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Southport at the 36th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 3,751 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Southport at the 34th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Southport's buildings actually sit
Indirect exposure is dominant in Southport (70.8% of 3,751 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 29.1% sit in the Direct zone.
Where Southport ranks
Southport's 78th-percentile standing inside New York outpaces its 36th 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, Southport ranks 20,177 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,473 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 290 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Southport
Southport's moderate wildfire rating (36th 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
Because 70.8% of Southport's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 3,751 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Southport. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Southport, see the exposure-zones guide.