Springs, NY
How exposed is Springs to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Springs at the 22nd national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 5,320 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Springs at the 22nd national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Springs's building exposure, zone by zone
76.8% of Springs's 5,320 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 4,086 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 10.5% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 12.7% are Minimal. At 5,320 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Springs ranks
Compare Springs's two percentiles: 48th within New York, only 22nd nationally — a gap of 26 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Springs ranks 24,588 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,246 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 677 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Springs
Springs's moderate rating (22nd 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
Because Direct exposure dominates in Springs (76.8%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Springs's 24,588-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Springs, see the exposure-zones guide.