Spencerport, NY
How exposed is Spencerport to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Spencerport at the 9th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 1,455 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Spencerport at the 9th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Spencerport rates 44.7% Minimal exposure against just 43.2% Direct and 12.1% Indirect — of 1,455 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Spencerport ranks
Spencerport's risk sits at a similar level relative to New York (21st percentile statewide) as it does nationally (9th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Spencerport ranks 28,626 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,375 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 1,021 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Spencerport
At the 9th national percentile, Spencerport rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Spencerport's 44.7% 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 Spencerport's 28,626-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Spencerport, see the exposure-zones guide.