Tuscarora, NY
Tuscarora, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Tuscarora at the 19th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 54 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Tuscarora at the 19th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 100% of Tuscarora's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 0% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 54 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Tuscarora compares
Compare Tuscarora's two percentiles: 44th within New York, only 19th nationally — a gap of 25 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Tuscarora ranks 25,444 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,827 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 726 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Tuscarora
Tuscarora's low rating (19th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Tuscarora
Tuscarora's 100% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Tuscarora's 25,444-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Tuscarora, see the exposure-zones guide.