Springfield Center, NY
How exposed is Springfield Center to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Springfield Center lands at the 6th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 330 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Springfield Center at the 6th percentile, close to its 6th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Springfield Center's 330 counted buildings, 88.5% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Springfield Center compares
Springfield Center's risk sits at a similar level relative to New York (9th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (6th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Springfield Center ranks 29,700 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,827 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 1,176 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Springfield Center's low rating (6th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 88.5% of Springfield Center in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 330 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Springfield Center. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Springfield Center, see the exposure-zones guide.