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St. John Fisher College, NY

St. John Fisher College, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers

Low
6thpercentile nationally

USFS scores St. John Fisher College at the 6th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 57 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)

USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts St. John Fisher College at the 7th percentile, close to its 6th-percentile risk score.

St. John Fisher College's building exposure, zone by zone

57Total buildings
12.3%Direct exposure
0%Indirect exposure
87.7%Minimal exposure

USFS classifies 87.7% of St. John Fisher College's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 12.3% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.

Where St. John Fisher College ranks

There's little gap between St. John Fisher College's 6th national percentile and its 10th percentile inside New York, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, St. John Fisher College ranks 29,638 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,748 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 1,168 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.

Shopping for coverage in St. John Fisher College

At the 6th national percentile, St. John Fisher College rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.

Hardening a home in St. John Fisher College

With 87.7% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, St. John Fisher College gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.

Where St. John Fisher College's figures come from

St. John Fisher College's 6th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what St. John Fisher College's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.