Vassar College, NY
Vassar College, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Vassar College at the 29th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 235 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Vassar College at the 30th percentile, close to its 29th-percentile risk score.
Vassar College's building exposure, zone by zone
64.3% of Vassar College's 235 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 35.7% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
How Vassar College compares
Within New York, Vassar College ranks higher (62nd percentile) than it does nationally (29th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Vassar College ranks 22,322 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,638 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 499 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Vassar College
At the 29th national percentile, Vassar College rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
With 64.3% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Vassar College gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 235 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Vassar College. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Vassar College, see the exposure-zones guide.