SUNY Oswego, NY
SUNY Oswego, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores SUNY Oswego at the 8th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 64 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, SUNY Oswego's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 7th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 17.2% of SUNY Oswego's 64 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 82.8% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How SUNY Oswego compares
There's little gap between SUNY Oswego's 8th national percentile and its 14th 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, SUNY Oswego ranks 29,165 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,516 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 1,101 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in SUNY Oswego
SUNY Oswego's low wildfire rating (8th 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.
Hardening a home in SUNY Oswego
SUNY Oswego's 82.8% 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 SUNY Oswego's 29,165-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond SUNY Oswego, see the exposure-zones guide.