University at Buffalo, NY
University at Buffalo, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
University at Buffalo sits at the 4th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 225 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts University at Buffalo at the 5th percentile, close to its 4th-percentile risk score.
Where University at Buffalo's buildings actually sit
Only 8.9% of University at Buffalo's 225 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 91.1% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How University at Buffalo compares
There's little gap between University at Buffalo's 4th national percentile and its 3rd 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, University at Buffalo ranks 30,301 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,956 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 1,251 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in University at Buffalo
At the 4th national percentile, University at Buffalo rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
University at Buffalo's 91.1% 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 University at Buffalo's 30,301-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond University at Buffalo, see the exposure-zones guide.