WildfireRiskFinder

Walworth, NY

Walworth, NY's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers

Low
13thpercentile nationally

USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Walworth at the 13th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 479 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)

Separately from the risk score above, Walworth's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 14th percentile nationally.

Walworth's building exposure, zone by zone

479Total buildings
88.3%Direct exposure
11.7%Indirect exposure
0%Minimal exposure

479 buildings are counted in Walworth, and 88.3% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.

How Walworth compares

Within New York, Walworth ranks higher (33rd percentile) than it does nationally (13th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Walworth ranks 27,307 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,731 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 872 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.

Shopping for coverage in Walworth

Walworth's low rating (13th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.

What would actually reduce this score

Walworth's 88.3% 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 Walworth's 27,307-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Walworth, see the exposure-zones guide.