Websters Crossing, NY
How exposed is Websters Crossing to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Websters Crossing lands at the 20th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 42 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Websters Crossing at the 20th percentile, close to its 20th-percentile risk score.
Websters Crossing's building exposure, zone by zone
42 buildings are counted in Websters Crossing, and 100% 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.
Where Websters Crossing ranks
Compare Websters Crossing's two percentiles: 46th within New York, only 20th nationally — a gap of 25 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Websters Crossing ranks 25,097 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,117 by building count (1 is largest). Within New York alone, it ranks 704 of 1,289 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for New York on its state page.
Websters Crossing and the insurance market
At the 20th national percentile, Websters Crossing 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 100% of Websters Crossing in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
Where Websters Crossing's figures come from
Websters Crossing's 20th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Websters Crossing's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.